No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”

No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”

A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described as the “next killer drug” taking over at an “exponential rate” while standard naloxone has “proven ineffective.” While there are some notable differences between cychlorphine and the various fentanyl analogs and nitazenes that have previously been called these things, in this case some of the warnings appear due to a mixup with a different drug. N-Propi…