Deadly carfentanil turning up in crack, advocates warn

Powerful carfentanil has turned up in crack cocaine tested at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre’s drug checking service, advocates for users’ safety warned Thursday.
Overdose Prevention Ottawa issued the advisory warning that the white or cream-coloured substance was thought to be crack but testing turned up the synthetic opioid used by vets on large animals like elephants.
It’s 100 times as toxic as the same amount of fentanyl and 10,000 times as toxic as a unit of morphi