Deadly synthetic opioid carfentanil seized in Toronto for 1st time, police say
TORONTO — Police in Toronto say they’ve made their first confirmed seizure of the deadly drug carfentanil.
They said Wednesday in a release that analysis of recently seized substances purported to be heroin tested positive for carfentanil, cocaine and caffeine.
Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that is used to sedate large animals and is not for human consumption.
The drug is fatal in small doses and has a potency approximately 10,000 times that of morphine and 100 times that of fentanyl.