While test strips can show whether drugs are laced with fentanyl, experts say that the deadly opioid can go undetected unless an entire batch of pills is tested. NBC News' Vicky Nguyen reports.
The number of babies born with severe birth defects affecting their growth and development is rising, as researchers now have strong evidence that illicit fentanyl is causing the problems. Hospitals have identified at least 30 newborns with what has been identified as “fetal fentanyl syndrome,” NBC News has learned. The babies were born to mothers who said they’d used street drugs, particularly fentanyl, while pregnant. “I have identified 20 patients,” said Dr.
When Gripp and a team of researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center exposed human and mouse cells to fentanyl, they discovered that the drug directly disrupted their ability to make cholesterol. “This is not something that people had known before, that fentanyl interferes so significantly with cholesterol metabolism,” Gripp said. “This is so important because cholesterol needs to be synthesized as the embryo develops.
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