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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Jun 12;213:108115. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108115

Table 3.

Average total available weights, numbers or wholesale and retail listings and average prices for heroin, fentanyl, fentanyl analogs and other novel synthetic opioids advertised on DreamMarket during the eDarkTrends data collection period (22nd of March 2018 to 26th of January 2019).

Substances Average total weights available at each data collection time point – grams (min-max) Retail Amounts (<=5g) Wholesale Amounts (>5g)
Average price in US$ per gram (min-max) Number of listings Average price in US$ per gram (min-max) Number of listings
Heroin 954.8 (601–2,267) 206.5 (28.3–1,881) 24,758 32.3 (0.2–170.2) 27,752
“Synthetic Heroin” 1,149.3 (25.9–4,216.8) 121.2 (0.1–701.9) 643 69.5 (7.0–129.9) 388
Pharmaceutical Fentanyl* 117.2 (5–277) 91.1 (17.2–307.5) 257 75.7 (30.0–109.5) 44
Non-Pharmaceutical Fentanyl
Non-Pharmaceutical Fentanyl 266.4 (0.3–1,998.8) 1470.4 (216.7–4,371.9) 274 139.5 (4.3–1,637.3) 57
Oxycodone Pills with Fentanyl* 2,494.7 (25–5,250) 6.4 (1.0–11.9) 6 1.1 (1.0–12.8) 117
Fentanyl Analogs
Furanylfentanyl (Fu-F) 2,296.6 (1–6,716.3) 243.1 (13.5–1,442.5) 111 26.5 (4.5–151.6) 106
Methoxyacetyl-fentanyl (MAF) 722.3 (<0.01–2,594.2) 194.1 (28.0–606.3) 26 40.0 (5.2–165.8) 77
4-Fluoroisobutyr-fentanyl (4-FIBF) 3,265.7 (540.7–3,955.7) 181.8 (17.7–516.5) 47 18.3 (6.6–182.5) 54
Carfentanil 548.7 (0.05–3,551.5) 2,311.8 (182.5–4,221.9) 25 101.0 (26.0–231.6) 20
Butyrfluorofentanyl 1,977 (1,935–2,040) 33.3 (32.2–34.3) 2 12.3 (6.1–28.9) 33
Precursors (4-ANPP, 4-APPP, APPP) 643.7 (100–900) ND 0 5.4 (3.5–7.6) 20
Acetylfentanyl 1.7 (0–1.7) 134.1 (108.6–159.7) 1 ND 0
4-Phenylfentanyl 1 (0.5–1.5) 1,746.8 (1,694.2–1,799) 1 ND 0
3-Methylmethoxy-acetylfentanyl (3-MMAF) 510 (510–510) ND 0 17.8 (3.9–34.9) 10
Butyrfentanyl (Butyrylfentanyl) 110.1 (110–110.3) 651.2 (579.0–723.4) 2 23.0 (20.5–25.5) 4
4-Methoxymethyl-fentanyl (R-30490) 195 (195–195) ND 0 22.9 (20.8–25.1) 4
Orthomethyl-furanylfentanyl (o-Me-Fu-F) <0.01 95.2 (75.2–115.2) 2 ND 0
Other Novel Synthetic Opioids
U-48,800 1,845.4 (10–3,715) 48.4 (27.5–193) 35 14.2 (4.7–122.3) 189
U-50,488 1,447 (10–1,910) 35.0 (19.2–52.2) 4 10.8 (6.1–32.1) 102
U-4TDP 1,460 (260–1,910) ND 0 10.6 (6.1–22.7) 100
U-47,700 540 (0.06–1,947) 100.3 (43.9–149.0) 27 19.7 (5.9–53.0) 57
Isopropyl-U-47,700 1,425 (885–1,941) 86.4 (43.1–151.9) 12 16.2 (6.6–36.0) 47
MPF-47,700 760 (10–1,912) 25.7 (24.6–26.7) 5 13.1 (6.2–24.3) 37
MP-47,700 1,268 (652–1,902) 36.5 (34.7–38.2) 6 8.6 (6.2–12.8) 31
U-49,900 22.5 (10–110) ND 0 29.5 (23.2–45.8) 9
U-58,800 1,125 (1,125–1,125) ND 0 8.2 (6.2–11.7) 6
U-47v700 1,160 (1,160–1,160) ND 0 17.1 (7.3–31.2) 4
AP-237 10 (10–10) ND 0 41.8 3
Bromadoline (U-47931e) 112.5 (100–125) ND 0 15.3 (7.2–16.6) 3
XIX-18 35 (35–35) 129.9 1 96.6 1
Etorphinecartanil 1 1,989.50 1 ND 0
FS-33 1 ND ND ND ND
U-45,500 500 ND 0 9.1 1
W-18 25 ND 0 22.9 1