Prince had an 'exceedingly high' concentration of fentanyl in his body when he died

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Meera Senthilingam, CNN

Updated 9:54 AM ET, Tue March 27, 2018

(CNN) - A toxicology report from Prince's autopsy has provided a more detailed picture of the cause of the singer's death.

The report shows he had what multiple experts called an "exceedingly high" concentration of fentanyl in his body when he died, according to the Associated Press who obtained the report.

Fentanyl, is the most powerful opioid in medicine and is prescribed by doctors to relieve pain from cancer. It can be made illicitly and is blamed for a spike in overdose deaths in the United States. It's 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

The DEA has said, "approximately two milligrams is a lethal dose for most non-opioid-dependent individuals."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/health/prince-toxicology-report-high-fentanyl-levels-bn/index.html

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Two Milligrams?!?!?

Wow, that is exceedingly low. That is some powerful stuff.
Per Pubchem, it's not a heroin or opium derivative, but a condensation addition of an amide grouping on a phenyl piperidin. Totally synthetic and must be incredibly powerful.
Again, citing the same source, the terminus is reacted with various other inoccuous materials to change the water or lipid solubility, so that it can taken transdermally or sublingually.
No wonder the overdose rate is so high.