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Carfentanil

A fentanyl analogue with a 4-carbomethoxy substituent on the piperidine ring; approximately 10,000 times the analgesic potency of morphine. Implicated in the 2002 Moscow theatre incident and US street fentanyl seizures from 2016.

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