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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

NEW Opiate to enter the scene Alfentanil

I just had surgery last a week ago today and had multiple doses of IV fentanyl when I woke up from the anesthesia. I'm intrigued by this "new" synthetic opiate, but with it being 1/4 as potent as fentanyl, I can't imagine it's too much of an improvement over fentanyl. I just took a passing glance at the Wikipedia link you posted, but i'll hit up the peer-reviewed periodicals/databases and post back any perpertinent info I find. Thanks to the OP for piquing my interest. :)
 
Alfentanil was discovered at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1976.

Are drugs from 40 years ago really classified as "new"?

Also why even bother with something that has a half life even shorter than fentanyl?
 
Jesus H. Christ. Reading that wiki article gave me a semi.

So is this kinda like dilaudid is to morphine as alfentanil is to fentanyl? Meaning, Dilaudid is just more concentrated than Morphine, this just sounds like a super concentrated form of Fentanyl.

When I've had to sit in the hospital multiple times with kidney stones, waiting for surgery, I was initially getting morphine 3-4mg IV, then I asked for Dilaudid, which was given at 1mg IV every hour. I remember going in for the surgery and the anesthesiologist was giving me some medicine in my IV, I asked what it was and he said, "Happy Juice". Later I found it was a cocktail of Fentanyl and Versed, I hardly even felt that. When he started to push the Propofol it stung like a mother fucker, I remember him saying, "Man you're not a light weight to this stuff." He ended up giving me more and thats the last thing I remember.
 
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