What Is Fentanyl and Is It Used in a Drug Rehabilitation Center?
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid drug that has been used for many years as an analgesic, anesthetic and pain relief drug in the healthcare setting. It is very strong and can cause overdoses easily, if it is used without a doctor’s prescription and care. Although fentanyl is legally manufactured by pharmaceutical companies for use in hospital environments, it has been illegally made by drug labs and mixed with other drugs where it is sold on the streets. Here is where fentanyl gets its dark reputation, because when it is sold on the streets, it is more likely to cause an overdose death to anyone using the drug to obtain a “high” or altered state from this synthetic opioid. If a person is participating in a drug rehabilitation or drug rehab center program to be weaned off of drugs to stop using drugs in life, and the person gets access to illegal fentanyl and takes it, it can result in a fentanyl drug overdose, which will lead to the untimely death of the individual.
Traditionally, fentanyl is used with the monitoring of a licensed medical doctor. If your loved one has suffered an overdose of fentanyl at a drug rehabilitation center, the owners, operators and administrators of the center would likely be responsible for the loved one having access to fentanyl. In that case, the drug rehabilitation center may possibly be sued for a wrongful death claim, for allowing your family member to get access to fentanyl within the bounds of the drug center property. If this situation has happened to you and you have had a loved one who was working with a drug rehab center program and did get access to fentanyl, took the fentanyl and suffered a death from a drug overdose, you will want to call us immediately at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422 today. We can review your fentanyl drug overdose of a loved one in a drug rehab center, and initiate a lawsuit against the at-fault parties on your behalf.
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How Long Does Fentanyl Stay in a Person’s System, After Being Admitted to a Verified Drug Rehabilitation Program?
In general, there is a crisis in our country and globally, regarding the opioid use disorder and deaths related to substance abuse of opioids. Fentanyl is an opioid that is a synthetic opioid, and it is highly toxic and deadly for users of this drug when it is made illicitly “on the streets.”1 Fentanyl can be made in illegal drug labs, which give higher potency of the drug to the people who use it, which can cause serious consequences and death to users of fentanyl. People who are treated in drug programs can have fentanyl in their systems for over a week, even after they have stopped using the drug. That means that an individual can test positive for fentanyl in the body, up to 19 days after admission to a drug rehab program.2 If you have had a loved one in a drug rehab program and facility, who died of a drug overdose, we can review a wrongful death claim with you, when you give us a call today to review your claim with a free consultation.
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Help, a Family Member Overdosed Fentanyl Overdose at a Drug Rehabilitation Center, Can I Sue?”
Fentanyl can be produced synthetically in an illegal lab. Those synthetic fentanyl drugs are called fentanyl analogs. The fentanyl analogs are chemically synthetic fentanyl compounds which act as an opioid in the human system, but can have a different level of potency.3 There are legal and illegal uses of fentanyl, but people who abuse fentanyl are most often using it illegally. When you are at a drug rehabilitation center, the actions and movements of all participants in a drug rehab program need to be monitored extensively, to ensure that they do not have any access to using improper drugs. If this has happened to you and a loved one suffered a fentanyl drug overdose in a drug rehabilitation center, then there may have been some negligence and improper monitoring going on at the center, in regard to checking on the participants in the program. We understand that this is a confusing time for you, but you can call us today to review your claim with you for free. We can initiate a lawsuit on the merits of your claim, and help you get the recovery compensation that you are due in this case.
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We can offer to you a zero-fee guarantee, when you call us today at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422. That means that we will never charge you any money up front, before we will start to look over your case for you, and start the process to initiating a lawsuit on the case of a wrongful death of your loved one at a drug rehab center.
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We can offer to you a free second opinion case review, with our legal team and a lawyer with a specialty in wrongful death claims. All that you need to do to start the process, is to call us today at the Normandie Law Firm. We are here to give you the peace of mind that you deserve in a wrongful death personal injury claim.
Can I Sue for a Drug Rehab Center – Overdose Wrongful Death Lawsuit?
Yes, we can sue when your loved one has died from a drug overdose while participating in a drug rehabilitation center program. We can start the process for you today, if you call us now at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422. Just call now to talk to our Los Angeles case lawyers, who can file a lawsuit on your behalf. We can answer your call 24/7, therefore there is no time like the present to make the first call to us.
Average Case Value of a Drug Rehab Center – Overdose Wrongful Death Lawsuit
The average case value of a drug rehabilitation center overdose and wrongful death claim for a loved one can range from $300,000 to over $5 million, depending on the merits of your particular case.
How Long Does It Take to Settle and to Get Paid on These Cases?
It can take 4-7 months to settle the wrongful death claim that you have for your loved one, who had a drug rehabilitation overdose case. We will be there to help you through each stage of negotiations for the claim, and we will answer your questions for you as we review your claim for free.
Statute Of Limitations – How Long Do I Have to File a Lawsuit?
The statute of limitations in California for personal injury lawsuit filing is two years. The statute of limitations in California for harassment and discrimination lawsuit filing is one year, with a two year timeframe to file for wrongful termination.
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You can call us at the Normandie Law Firm today, for a free consultation on your wrongful death claim for a loved one. Just call now, and we can answer your questions for you regarding our wrongful death case of an overdose of a loved one who was staying in a drug rehabilitation center. We are here for you 24/7, and can talk to you now at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422.
References
1Comer, S. D., & Cahill, C. M. (2019). Fentanyl: Receptor pharmacology, abuse potential, and implications for treatment. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 106, 49–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.12.005.
2Luba, R., Jones, J., Choi, C. J., & Comer, S. (2023). Fentanyl withdrawal: Understanding symptom severity and exploring the role of body mass index on withdrawal symptoms and clearance. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 118(4), 719–726. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16100.
3Weidele, H. R., Wightman, R., St John, K., Marchetti, L., Bratberg, J., & Hallowell, B. D. (2022). Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs Detected Among Unintentional Opioid Involved Overdose Deaths in Rhode Island: January 2019-December 2021. Rhode Island Medical Journal (2013), 105(10), 64–66.
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