That sentence has found an echo almost three decades later in a statement repeated over and over again: fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin. “Take the best orgasm you’ve ever had, multiply it by 1,000 and you’re still nowhere near it,” proclaimed Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting (1996) as he recounted the misadventures of a group of heroin addicts in a gray and futureless Edinburgh. Fentanyl, a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin? EL PAÍS brought together three experts who have studied fentanyl from the point of view of pharmacology, anthropology and medicine, including the medical and social implications of addiction, the torture of withdrawal syndrome, the ease of buying doses in streets that are flooded by the law of supply and demand, the high probability of an overdose, and the criminalization of consumers. Many things are being said about the drug, some true, some not so much. The powerful drug is wreaking havoc in the United States and straining diplomatic relations with Mexico (accused of being one of the largest producers) and with China, in the middle of a new Cold War that seems to intensify by the week. For some time now, the opioid has dominated the public conversation - or, at least, the political agenda. Fentanyl pills seized by the DEA in Phoenix (USA).
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