The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division recently announced that it’s issuing a warning after the DEA’s Southwest Laboratory identified illicit pills containing mixtures of fentanyl/carfentanil and fentanyl/heroin in Colorado and Utah.
Fentanyl Remains a Major Threat
The DEA states that fentanyl remains the biggest drug threat the United States has faced in its entire history, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past decade. Carfentanil is an animal tranquilizer that is 100 times stronger than fentanyl.
Pills found to contain both fentanyl/carfentanil and fentanyl/heroin in recent DEA seizures in Colorado and Utah were blue, green, and blue-green in color. In Colorado, pills with the potentially deadly combination of illicit drugs were seized in both the Denver area and the Western Slope. In Utah, seized pills were in the greater Salt Lake City area.
“With these findings, once again we implore people in our communities to NEVER take a pill from anyone unless it comes from a prescribing doctor or pharmacy,” said DEA RMFD Special Agent in Charge David Olesky.
More information can be found at http://www.dea.gov/fentanylfree.
Original reporting: Oil City News (Casper WY) — read the source article.
