Opioid drug "carfentanil" is used to tranquilize elephants. In humans, it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl and 10,000 times stronger than morphine. Two milligrams is enough to kill a human. Two milligrams is 0.002 grams, or 1/500th the weight of a small paper clip.
Forty-six pounds (101,200 grams) of it was seized at a home (along with cocaine and heroin) in California by the Federal Drug Administration a month ago. That's 50,000,000 lethal doses.
That this much "crazy dangerous" synthetic opioid has been taken off the streets is good news.
from USA Today
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