Doc! You can get a Fentanyl patch.
Yeah, but the junkies suck the liquid out of 'em with needles and inject.
I should've qualified my needle comment by saying nobody INTENTIONALLY takes fentanyl except by needle. As an additive/adulterant to other drugs, it can be added to almost any oral medication.
As the article says, it's a potent sumbitch. First-pass liver degradation of orally ingested drug will wipe out at least 50% of the drug, but since the lethal dose is so small, most street "chemists" don't know how to safely reduce their dosages so people will get high instead of getting killed.
It's tragic that people are dying from taking this drug, but after all they ARE knowingly taking illegal opioids.
