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Highly potent fentanyl analogs: apnea from exposure to small quantities of ß-hydroxyfentanyl and furanylfentanyl

Robert G. HendricksonDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
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Peter AkpunonuDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky, Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, KY, USA;
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Adrienne R. HughesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA;
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Roy GeronaClinical Toxicology and Environmental Biomonitoring Lab, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pages 813-815 | Received 08 Oct 2018, Accepted 06 Dec 2018, Published online: 19 Mar 2019

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