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. 2022 Jan 28;71(4):153-155.
doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7104a3.

Notes from the Field: Increased Incidence of Fentanyl-Related Deaths Involving Para-fluorofentanyl or Metonitazene - Knox County, Tennessee, November 2020-August 2021

Jordan Trecki, Roy R Gerona, Ross Ellison, Chris Thomas, Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan

Notes from the Field: Increased Incidence of Fentanyl-Related Deaths Involving Para-fluorofentanyl or Metonitazene - Knox County, Tennessee, November 2020-August 2021

Jordan Trecki et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Roy R. Gerona and Ross Ellison report grants from the Department of Justice for testing biological samples that might have new psychoactive substance etiology. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan reports free testing performed for the Knox County Regional Forensic Center for novel drugs of abuse from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Diversion Control Division, Drug and Chemical Evaluation Section and the Clinical Toxicology and Environmental Biomonitoring Laboratory, University of California at San Francisco, with funding support from a DEA grant. No other potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.

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