According to the Dutch anesthesian association (NVA), as Dutch doctors are more careful about prescribing addictive opioids, illegal transactions of powerful painkillers such as oxycodone and pentanil are increasing. The association is trying to quickly map the size of the opioid cancer market. Because it causes serious health risk, NVA whole body.
Frank Wille, an anesthetic specialist, a pain specialist, and a spokesman for NVA, said, “This type of opioids have been found to be more and more contaminated. The first Dutch people died after drinking a fake oxycodon pill that contains the form of Nitagen, a type of opioide that is up to 100 times stronger than morphine. In March last year, the police found a large Nitagen deployment in the Netherlands.
Most of the Dutch opioid users obtain painkillers through doctor prescriptions. But according to the drug monitor of Trimbos Institute, at least 90,000 people bought painkillers illegally at some point. Wille said in the Netherlands how big the dark market is. If we know it, we can prepare better, he said.
According to Wille, people of the three groups will buy illegally strong painkillers. Patients with chronic pains who have prescribed opioids after surgery, but have been using mental health problems, and all pain without pain for a while. The last group is the largest group in the Netherlands, which consists of about one million people. “And we will grow due to the aging population.”
I am also concerned about Daan Van der group, a drug researcher at Trimbos Institute. “We want to buy some painkillers without prescription, why do so and where to do so.” “Only when we know, we can develop policies so that people do not buy this type of drug in the cancer market as possible in the future.”
