President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. attributes Rodrigo Duterte's tirades about his drug addiction to fentanyl, a drug that Duterte had taken in the past.
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. shrugged off the tirades of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte regarding his supposed drug addiction , attributing them to fentanyl, a drug that the former leader had taken. The Centers for Disease Control of the United States describes fentanyl as 'a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
' In 2016, Duterte said that he had used fentanyl in the past to ease pain caused by spinal injuries from a motorbike accident but has not acknowledged ongoing use of the drug. Duterte's former spokesman and lawyer Salvador Panelo said he had stopped taking fentanyl before his presidency because the pain had disappeare
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