A synthetic opioid is raising alarm bells in El Paso County. The coroner’s office said the drug carfentanil was detected in a recent case and is the first known time the drug has appeared in the county without also detecting fentanyl.
According to the alert from the coroner’s office, someone who died in August in Colorado Springs had a number of pills in their possession that authorities suspected was fentanyl. Further testing showed they contained carfentanil but no fentanyl.
El Paso County coroner Dr. Emily Russell-Kinsley said in an email that her office has been testing for carfentanil since 2019…