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By: Marshal Shlafer
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Many news reports in the spring and summer of 2006 have told of a large number of deaths of opioid abusers who had purchased and self-administered illicit drugs that contained lethal amounts of fentanyl. One
patient who received this fentanyl-laced drug presents in your emergency department, barely alive. Which of the following drugs should you admin-ister first, with the best hope that it can promptly reverse the lethal effects of the fentanyl?
a. Diazepam
b. Flumazenil
c. Naloxone
d. Naltrexone
e. Phenytoin
