Press seems to love screwing this up. Look at mainstream sites and how they love to say &quot;Synthetic Heroin&quot; when referring to other opiates. Purely for the scare value against the ignorant. &quot;OMG it&#x27;s like Heroin...BUT WORSE&quot;. Not to mention, we should actually want more powerful opiates, as less would be required. It&#x27;s like those idiots that say &quot;hey the pot today, it&#x27;s not like when I was a kid, it&#x27;s got MORE THC&quot;. Uh, doesn&#x27;t that just mean you need to smoke less, making it better for your lungs?<p>(The only real issue with &quot;synthetic heroin&quot; is when people cut heroin or other drugs with more powerful ones, like fentanyl, leading to overdoses. Once again, the illegality introduces these dangers.)<p>Same people probably don&#x27;t know that Methamphetamine (the evil devil drug) is Schedule II and legally available to be prescribed in the US. And that speed is amphetamines, very similar to meth, and prescribed to 6 yr olds. Or that when your 7-yr-old gets a small surgery, they likely hit her with fentanyl (much, much, stronger than Heroin).<p>It&#x27;s just throwing around words to scare and promote ignorance and fear of actual science&#x2F;medicine.