Louisiana.- A local police department in Louisiana is warning people about a potentially lethal drug combination called “gray death,” a substance so powerful that they warn that it should not even be touched, or it can be fatal.
The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana is alerting the public about the drug following recent arrests.
David Spencer, spokesman for the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office, told KLFY, a CBS affiliate, that the “gray death” is a heroine that has been cut with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that the Control Agency of United States drugs says it is 80 to 100 times stronger than heroin.
Consider the color. They look like pieces of concrete, Spencer said.
The medicine looks like a concrete mixture and varies in consistency from a hard and thick material to a fine powder.
It is a combination of several opioid drugs that have been linked to thousands of fatal overdoses in the US. UU.
In addition to heroin, it can also contain fentanyl, carfentanil (sometimes used to soothe large animals, including elephants) and a synthetic opioid called U-47700. Gray-death users inject, swallow, smoke or inhale it.
The drug began to appear in Georgia and Alabama in 2017, and then appeared in Ohio and Pennsylvania before arriving in Louisiana, reports KLFY.
The first sample seized in the state was recovered from suspects traveling through the parish of St. Mary, according to police. “You don’t want to touch this,” Spencer told the station.
“If possible, you don’t even want to put it in your hands.” According to Drugs.com, people should avoid contact with him because furanyl, fentanyl and U-47700 are lethal in very low doses.
“Gray death” dust can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin and can be extremely toxic, even in the smallest amounts, and can quickly lead to fatal respiratory depression, the website says.
If the medicine is mixed with carfentanil, it is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
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