An overdose prevention nonprofit is warning visitors to Orlando this weekend to remain vigilant about their use of party drugs, especially at the three-day Electrical Daisy Carnival, following the detection of a highly-potent tranquilizer in the local street drug supply.
According to Project Overdose, the powerful synthetic opioid carfentanil has been detected in a range of counterfeit pills and powders throughout Orange and Seminole counties.
Considered roughly 100 times more potent than the synthetic opioid fentanyl, carfentanil has been implicated in a rising number of overdose deaths in recent years. It’s a powerful central nervous system depressant, originally manufactured as an elephant tranquilizer, that can be deadly for humans if even a small amount is ingested…