# Fatal Fentanyl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 19, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-fentanyl/1014539 "2025-02-19T20:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-fentanyl/1014539/41 "2025-02-21T01:09:26Z")
This new drug, suzetrigine, looks like a spinoff of anticonvulsants (lamotrigine has been on the market for many years) and we really are getting down to the molecular level, aren’t we? (This is one reason why I am seriously thinking about putting my licenses on inactive status in 2026, something I always told myself I would never do.) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-fentanyl/1014539/42 "2025-02-21T01:19:19Z")
My understanding was there are 10 different sodium channels, and the 1.7 and 1.8 channels mostly control pain. This new drug selectively targets the 1.7 channel. I thought lamotrigine mostly worked by inhibiting the 1.4 sodium channel. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-fentanyl/1014539/43 "2025-02-21T01:20:03Z")
Nux vomica is actually the raw material for strychnine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-fentanyl/1014539.md?page=2)