Drug called furanyl fentanyl is so potent you can die from touching it, Georgia authorities say

[TexasTowelie]

ATLANTA -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a drug is so dangerous, if someone touches it they could die.

Numbers just released show a drug called furanyl fentanyl, which the Drug Enforcement Administration website calls a synthetic opioid, caused 19 deaths in Georgia from 2016 to 2017, and 11 of those deaths happened just this year.

The GBI was alerted in January to a pill factory where it found 10 kilos of pills and powder that were labeled as oxycodone. The pills turned out to be the deadly furanyl fentanyl, which is several times more potent than heroin.

“When I found out what I actually had, (I was) definitely a little scared because of the amount that was submitted. Anything could have happened, but luckily with the protective gear and the staff that I had, everything went OK,” Gwinnett County Deputy Shannon Volkadov said.

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[Blues Heron]

1. Thanks War on Drugs!

you've succeeded in making things worse!

Fentanyl - the bathtub gin of drug prohibition.

[japple]

3. I remember when my neighbors used it during the 1970s as a substitute

for heroin.

[argyl]

2. Up until a few years ago fentanyl was mainly used in hospitals.

And for use by terminal cancer patients. And now they're mixing it with heroin. This stuff is effective(and lethal) at extremely small doses. 250 micrograms of LSD and you'll be tripping your ass off. 250 micrograms of fentanyl could be lethal.

[HelenWheels]

4. Hard to believe and I don't

Might be harmful if you rolled around in it naked. However, as a patient who used Fentanyl patches in the hospital I found it to be less than useful in dealing with my pain.