Fentanyl, a drug born in Belgium and wreaking havoc in Canada: what is its impact here?

This drug, born in Belgium, caused the death, by overdose, of stars such as Prince.

Fentanyl is 40 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. The product, born in Belgium, was already well known in medical circles. “It is a powerful anesthetic, available on prescription. It is used in the treatment of pain“, describes Michael Hogge, scientific and epidemiological project manager for Eurotox, the socio-epidemiological alcohol-drug observatory in Wallonia and Brussels.

Here it is, emerging, diverted from its primary vocation and prized by drug addicts in search of reduction of anxiety, well-being, drowsiness or even creativity.

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