UNDATED, (WTAQ) – There’s a drug on the streets that’s getting the attention of authorities.
Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid in the Fentanyl drug family.
It’s typically used as tranquilizer for large animals and is 10,000 more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
Lt. Kevin Kinnard is the director of the Brown County Drug Task Force and says they haven’t had any cases with the drug in Brown County yet.
“I know that the Wausau crime lab has had documented cases within their service district, which is basically all of the northern half of Wisconsin. But we don’t have a documented case here yet in Brown County.”
Kinnard says street dealers may think they are selling heroin, when in fact they’re selling fentanyl or even worse carfentanil mixed together.
He says this could be the reason behind the drug overdoses or deaths happening in Wisconsin.
“So you have users, using the amount they normally do of the street drug, thinking they’re getting heroin and actually they’re getting a much more dangerous and potent synthetic opioid and that’s the reason we’re seeing overdoses or worse yet, overdose deaths,” said Kinnard.
Read more about the deadly drug at www.dea.gov.
