Chicago Police issued an alert about a potent drug that is peddled on the streets as heroin, but actually is hundreds of times stronger and may have caused up to a dozen fatal overdoses in recent weeks on the South Side.

The Sun-Times reported Sunday that investigators became concerned about a pattern of fatal overdoses where the victims were either found on a stretch between 27th and 30th, on State and Dearborn, or had bought drugs there. On Monday, Chicago Police officials alerted the public, saying they believe a synthetic drug called fentanyl has been sold as heroin.

Fentanyl, a prescription pain-killer that is 80 times more powerful than morphine and is used by cancer patients, has surfaced before as a substitute for heroin and has proven lethal here and elsewhere the country.
Source: Suntimes

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