Bioengineers close to brewing opioid painkillers without using opium from poppies

Captain.Heroin said:
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.
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S.J.B. said:
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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Well, that was a prescient exchange.
 
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