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Study reveals presence of fentanyl in Gulf of Mexico dolphins

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Researchers detected traces of human pharmaceuticals in the blubber of live, free-swimming common bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico .

Dolphins, like humans, consume fish and shrimp, suggesting potential human health impacts.

Fentanyl , an opioid analgesic for severe pain that is 100 times more potent than morphine, was present in 18 of the biopsied animals and all post-mortem dolphins.

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English

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