PolitiFact answers readers’ most commonly asked questions about fentanyl. We explain the difference between medical and illicit fentanyl, why there are...
“Fentanyl is an old, well-understood drug that is used safely” every day in medicine, said Dr. Ryan Marino, a Case Western Reserve University toxicologist and emergency room physician who studies addiction. “It is one of the most valuable and most” commonly used “medical therapeutics.”
Illicit fentanyl, on the other hand, is made in clandestine labs and is the version of the drug most closely associated with overdose deaths. Illicit fentanyl, according to theReader question: If you can’t absorb fentanyl through the skin, why are there fentanyl patches? Despite viral stories of police officers or emergency responders supposedly overdosing or getting sick through unintentional contact with fentanyl, experts say it’s not scientifically possible. FentanylHowever, medical fentanyl is sometimes administered through skin patches. But experts say this isn’t evidence that you can get sick by touching fentanyl in powdered or pill form.
For example, even though there are nicotine patches, your skin can’t absorb nicotine by touching tobacco, “and the same principle applies to fentanyl,” according to aWith medical fentanyl patches, the skin
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