With all the recent opioid deaths, you may wonder why is fentanyl deadlier than heroin? Out of the opioid family of drugs, fentanyl is the most potent of them all. In fact, when compared with heroin, fentanyl is about 50 times stronger. Ingesting just a tiny amount of fentanyl can prove fatal. Lately, about half of overdose deaths have involved fentanyl. In most cases in which someone died, they were not aware there was fentanyl in the substance they had purchased. In many of these deaths, it was fentanyl within the heroin supply that caused the fatal outcome. So why is fentanyl deadlier than ..read more

Heroin Rehab Southern California Battling a heroin addiction is akin to walking around with a ticking time bomb attached to your ankle.  With long-term use leading to adverse health risks combined with inconsistent purity levels of the drug, the dangers of dying due to heroin dependency are very real.  Another growing risk involves whether the heroin has been mixed with another potentially fatal drug, such as fentanyl, which increases the possibility of overdose. The Centers for Disease Control recently released data from 2016 citing alarming statistics regarding heroin and other opioids.  Acc ..read more