Drugs/Therapy

Dangerous New Drug An Opioid Combination; What We Know So Far About Gray Death [VIDEO]

By Carrie Ball | Update Date: May 05, 2017 05:49 AM EDT

A new dangerous drug is out on the streets. The new drug has been named "gray death" by authorities. This is an opioid combination and is the latest dangerous drug.

What Is This New Drug?

This new drug is a combination of opioids and has been responsible for several overdoses. Most of the users do not know the ingredients in this new dangerous drug. This makes the drug more lethal, as reported by Chicago Tribune.

The opioid combination can be absorbed through the skin. That means, a user can be at risk even when touching the drug. Deneen Kilcrease, the manager of the chemistry section at the Georgia Bureau of Investigationm, shared that this combination has been the most dangerous drug after 20 years.

It is indicated that gray death has a higher potency than heroin. The users swallow, inject, smoke, or snort the opioid combination. A recent report from Georgia records 50 overdoses in three months. These recorded overdose cases include gray death.

The new opioid combination is a new drug that has been going around. This has been investigated as to how the drug can affect the user.

There were also other drug combinations that caused a lot of drug overdose cases. The gray death is the latest one that investigators are still trying to figure out - composition and combination wise.

What Is It Really Made Of?

Meanwhile, as gray death is said to be a combination of several opioids - these can include heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and U-47700, according to WYFF. It is indicated that this kind of drug looks like a concrete mix.

There are also variations with this type of opioid combination. This varies from a hard, chunky material to fine powder. The authorities are considering this new drug to be very dangerous. There are more and more users of the drug coming in since it is easy to buy.

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