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. 2022 Dec 23;8(12):e24938. doi: 10.2196/24938

Table 5.

Average number of fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other nonpharmaceutical synthetic opioids advertised on cryptomarkets extracted with the drug abuse ontology [34].

Types of substances Average number of advertisements per day, by month (number of crawls)

Agora Dream Market

March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 March 2018 April 2018
Fentanyla 130 174 139 207 216
Fentanyl analogs

Acetyl fentanyl 44 39 41 3 1

Butyr fentanyl 12 10 17 6 7

Carfentanil 0 0 0 12 5

Furanyl fentanyl 0 0 1 31 39

Methoxy Acetyl fentanyl 0 0 0 14 14

4-fluroIsoButyr fentanyl 0 0 0 19 16

3-methoxyMethyl fentanyl 0 0 0 2 2

Total, fentanyl analogs 56 49 59 87 84
Other NPb synthetic opioids

U-47,700 5 4 5 0 3

W-18 5 4 5 0 0

MT-45 9 8 9 0 0

AH-7921 0 0 1 0 0

U-48,800 0 0 0 1 7

U-49,900 0 0 0 0 1

U-4TDP 0 0 0 0 4

U-50,488 0 0 0 8 4

MPF-47700 0 0 0 0 5

Total, other NP synth opioids 19 16 20 9 24
Other opioidsc 827 1061 1152 3211 3137
Total (any opioids) 1033 1300 1370 3512 3460

aIncludes mentions of fentanyl, China white heroine, synthetic heroine, and mentions of pharmaceutical fentanyl such as Duragesic, fentanyl patches, and fentanyl transdermal system.

bNP: nonpharmaceutical.

cIncludes mentions of heroin, opium, morphine and other types of pharmaceutical opioids (eg, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and hydromorphone) excluding pharmaceutical fentanyl.