Ed Bilsky interviewed about Fentanyl after arrests, overdoses

Ed Bilsky

University of New England vice president of Research and Scholarship Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., was interviewed about the drug Fentanyl by WCSH. The news station was seeking expertise on the subject after a batch of heroin laced with the drug caused several overdoes in Biddeford and led police to an arrest.

Bilsky, an expert in chronic pain, addiction and opioids, said fentanyl is cheaper and easier to make than heroin but also more unpredictable. "For a drug addict it's the same effect but maybe more intense and also unpredictable. It can knock you unconscious and you can succumb to respiratory depression."

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