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A comment on The Opioid Detection Challenge.

Re:The Opioid Detection Challenge by gorkish on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:54PM (#19487933)
When much of the problem are people getting opioids directly from the pharmacy what good is detecting it in the mail?
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Re:The Opioid Detection Challenge by refurb on Monday March 25, 2019 @09:41PM (#19488545)
Most of the opioids are from illicit sources. Or at least the opioids that are killing people.

It’s a real challenge. 1 gram of fentanyl, which would be easy to disguise in the mail, is equal to 10,000 doses.

Carfentanyl is 50-100x more potent.

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Re:The Opioid Detection Challenge by meowface on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:15AM (#19491458)
This seems to specifically be aimed at detecting fentanyl and its derivatives, which doctors rarely prescribe.
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