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. 2025 Jun 20:16:1616610.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1616610. eCollection 2025.

First reports of illegal fentanyl sales in Peru: the beginning of a crisis?

Aldo Alvarez-Risco  1 , Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales  2 , Neal M Davies  3 , Sandra Huamán-Pastorelli  4 , Jaime A Yáñez  5
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First reports of illegal fentanyl sales in Peru: the beginning of a crisis?

Aldo Alvarez-Risco et al. Front Psychiatry. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Peru; addiction; drugs; fentanyl; illegal; opioids.

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