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jeremy diamond, live at the white house, thank you. jim. today there are serious new concerns about an emerging group of synthetic opioids, potentially more potent even than fentanyl, also more resistant to life saving medication that can reverse the es effects of an opioid overdose. cnn health reporter, jacqueline howard has looked into the study. first, i have to wonder why, i mean, why such power synthetic opioids, what are they for? >> well, jim, what i can tell you, this is a subclass of synthetic opioids, called nitozines, they are about a thousand times more potent than morphine, and in comparison, another powerful synthetic opioid, fentanyl, is about 100 times more potent than morphine. so that's a significant difference here, and what we have learned here in this new study that just came out today, jim, researchers looked at data