Police, EMS Taking Extra Precautions After Carfentanil Overdose Deaths

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s a drug powerful enough to be used on elephants. Now, two people from area have died after using heroin laced with Carfentanil.
Both deaths happened in Beaver County late last year, and test results are just back. One victim was in New Brighton, the other in Beaver Falls.
Other overdoses have happened in Detroit, Cincinnati and Huntington, West Virginia.
Beaver County Coroner David Gabauer says Carfentanil is frighteningly powerful: “It comes in a powder