Is Australia ready for fentanyl?

- A review was undertaken of how illicit Fentanyl use in Australia may develop.
- Shortages in heroin availability correlate with increases in synthetic opioid use.
- Seizures of illicit Fentanyl have increased significantly over the last 2 years.
- Limited work has been reported profiling clandestine produced Fentanyl.
- The Siegfried method is the most common clandestine synthesis route to date.