# 14 Topping Fentanyl for fatal potency

In previous posts, we published accounts of overdose deaths, in the Buffalo, NY area, in which Heroin was cut with a powerful anti-canter pain medicine...a synthetic opioid known as Fentanyl.  It was Fentanyl abuse, self-administered by the adult known as Prince, which killed him and it was Fentanyl which killed one of a mother/daughter self-administering pair in the Buffalo-area report in July 2016.  Fentanyl, we learned, is 30-80 times more potent than the equivalent in Natural, refined, Heroin.

In late July, 2016, we learn that the creative authors of death have been lacing the Heroin they sell with an even more powerful synthetic opioid known as Carfentanil.  Due to the vast size of an elephant, a very potent synthetic drug is used to sedate (slow the respiration to sleep while not reaching coma/death) elephants and the drug is Carfentanil.  Veterinarians are so aware of this drug's risk that they take special precautions when they prepare to administer it in an approved setting for large animals.  They know that a mere drop of this drug can be fatal to a human and they wear protective clothing and protect their orifices from coming into contact with the drug.

So now, people who believe they are purchasing the natural substance Heroin (which has its own lethal dosage level), need to be mindful that they could be purchasing the drug which took Prince to death and they could also be buying a potent drug which sedates elephants and has killed people in Cleveland, Ohio.

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/07/14/akron-police-chief-heroin-being-cut-with-elephant-sedative-88-overdoses-since-july-5