If your doctor prescribes you fentanyl, it’s a given you’re in pretty bad shape. The synthetic pain killer is reserved for late-stage cancers or serious surgeries. It’s the type of drug you get when morphine won’t cut it — as it’s up to 100 times more potent.
Or you can get it from your local street-level drug dealer — more often, in Georgia, whether you want it or not.
The Georgia Department of Public Health is warning because it takes so little to have an effect, illicit drug producers are adding it to heroin, cocaine, and even MDMA and methamphetamines. It’s cheaper that way. That’s caused a huge spike in overdose deaths, including here in Georgia.
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