The epidemic of deaths from the drug fentanyl

2023-10-20 13:08:05

A few weeks ago I was in Emergencies from the hospital and in front of him was a man in severe pain. Apparently he had fallen and bruised his shoulder. The nurse came over to medicate him and he asked her what she was going to give him. Fentanylshe answered, and the man, half joking and scared, blurted out: “Wow, like the one in the movie.”

And there is a series of Netflix, called “Lethal Medicine,” which addresses the tremendous problem that exists today, especially in the United States, with this drug used as a drug. Next Monday, October 23, Cuatro will premiere a report on the matter in two installments.

He fentanyla drug widely used as analgesic which has a power 40 times greater than heroin and 100 times greater than morphine, has become one of the worst drugs, no matter how legal it is. He singer Prince died for it.

And in Spain, despite the fact that more than a few years ago officially documented child deathsits sales are growing scandalously.

It is important to know that the fentanyl skin patches should be used exclusively to control Moderate to severe chronic pain is not for treating mild painpassengers or after a medical or dental operation or procedure.

What about if He Fentanyl is widely used in Spanish hospitals, is one of the reference drugs when there is acute pain. In the United States the drug overdose They kill 142 people every day. That’s why a few years ago we asked ourselves: Is there a “phantom epidemic” of deaths from the drug fentanyl in Spain?

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The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) has reported on this and the importance of respecting the authorized conditions of use to minimize the risk of abuse and/or dependence on immediate-release fentanyl-containing medications.

That medicines available in Spain contain fentanyl? Well, sublingual tablets brands Abstral y Avarice; tablets to suck Abfentiq y Actiq; soluble buccal film Breakyl; oral tablets Effentora; and brands nasal spray Instanyl y They will sin.

The Aemps says that there is no data available on the incidence of abuse and dependence related to the use of medications with immediate release fentanylbut that almost 60% of cases of abuse and/or dependency notified to the Spanish Pharmacovigilance System Suspected adverse reactions refer to patients in whom immediate-release fentanyl was used for indications not included in the technical data sheet, in some of them for prolonged periods…

The problem, as always, is that in our country (and in general, in all), there is a under-reporting of damage caused by medical devices. And since this notification, by laboratories, doctors and patients, is very very low, it is not easy to detect if there is a serious problem with a treatment.

We must be very careful so that an epidemic of deaths and addictions does not occur here as is happening in the USA. The matter is very serious, and that It was something that was announced.

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