China bans opioids and other synthetics that are blamed for U.S. drug deaths

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source: https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/19/synthetic-opioids-fentanyl-china/

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By ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNE 19, 2017

BEIJING — China said Monday it would ban a designer drug called U-47700^Wiki and three others, following U.S. pressure to do more to control synthetic opioids blamed for fast-rising overdose deaths in the United States.

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Deng Ming, deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Commission, said that U-47700 and three other synthetic drugs — (this opioid) MT-45^Wiki, para-Methoxy-N-methylamphetamine^Wiki, and 4,4-DMAR^Wiki — would be added to China’s list of controlled substances as of July 1