The Vancouver Examiner: W-18

W-18: An Opioid 100x As Lethal As Fentanyl

W-18 is a compound in a series of 32 substances (named W-1 to W-32) that were first synthesized in academic research on analgesic drug discovery in the 1980s and appeared as a designer drug in the 2010s.

W-18 was invented at the University of Alberta.

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W-18

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W-18 was invented at the University of Alberta by a lab working on analgesic drug discovery in the 1980s, and preliminary studies in animals showed it had pain-killing activity in mice.

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W-18: The Deadliest Designer Drug Ever?

What is W-18? Very little is known about this compound. It has been described as opioid like but its mode of action is not like that of more commonly known opioids such as morphine.

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