Bioengineers close to brewing opioid painkillers without using opium from poppies

[S.J.B.]

Chemical synthesis of fentanyl analogues must be more affordable than growing poppies. If I'm wrong, let it be known. I am only stating this as to the future of medicine supply. I don't think we will be dependent on the opium as a crop for eternity.

Yep. That's why I'm surprised that fentanyl and similar compounds haven't completely taken over the illicit opioid market. I guess old habits (and supply chains) die hard.

Well, that was a prescient exchange.

 

[Wilson Wilson]

Yep. That's why I'm surprised that fentanyl and similar compounds haven't completely taken over the illicit opioid market. I guess old habits (and supply chains) die hard.

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[X11400]

This finding isn’t anything new.

 

[Wilson Wilson]

This finding isn’t anything new.

The OP is from 2014.

 

[X11400]

The OP is from 2014.

Didn’t bother to go to the first page.