Carfentanil is a tranquilizer for elephants and zoo animals, but the rare opioid has found its way into heroin supplies. Now it’s wreaking havoc with a potency that exceeds the opioid-reversing abilities of drugs available to law enforcement. In just two weeks, 200 people in Cincinnati overdosed from carfentanil, and three died. The opioid caught … Continue reading Beyond junk: Elephant tranquilizer causes mass overdoses, worsens opioid epidemic