Officials slow to warn public as elephant tranquilizer was being sold as heroin

It’s the strongest drug ever to hit the streets of Columbus. A synthetic opioid that the DEA says is 100 times more powerful than Fentanyl and 10,000 times more powerful than morphine. It’s used to tranquilize elephants and other large animals. On July 10, 11 drug users overdosed from it in Columbus. Two of them died.In a news release issued that day, Columbus Police only said, “Individuals that use heroin should be advised that there could be highly potent and dangerous units