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Fentanyl’s Fatal Fumes: The Lethal Risks of Residue in Smoking Devices


As smoking fentanyl becomes more common than injection, users face mounting dangers from the residue in smoking equipment. Now that smoking has overtaken injecting as the most common method for consuming fentanyl, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered an i

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