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Opiate used for elephants now in hands of Ohio heroin users

Saturday, July 16, 2016

by Toledo Blade

CINCINNATI  — Authorities are warning that an opiate used by veterinarians for elephants and other large animals is circulating among heroin users in Ohio.

The synthetic opioid carfentanil is 100 times stronger than fentanyl, the analgesic blamed for increasing overdose deaths, and it’s 10,000 times stronger than the morphine on the streets.

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