Two University of Texas-related social media accounts issued a warning Thursday about a drug going around called cychlorphine — a substance tied to a string of overdoses across the country, including in Texas.
Cychlorphine is a synthetic opioid from a category known as orphines. It is not a new drug and is being found across the U.S. in marijuana, cocaine and other drugs.
Notably, it can’t be detected by fentanyl test strips, which detect the widely circulated synthetic opioid. Reversing a cychlorphine overdose could require several doses of naloxone, a medicine that reverses an opioid overdose, such as Narcan…