’Weapons-grade opioid’ carfentanil detected in Waterloo region, drug taskforce warns - Kitchener-Waterloo - CBC News
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the #fentanyl wave has been coming into Ontario and this is just a part of that wave in our view," Larkin said in a phone interview during a break from a conference of Ontario police leaders in Barrie.
Often when people use drugs, “they do not know what they’re ingesting. This is a prime example,” he said.
“We look at the magnitude of the potential for serious injury and likely death when somebody uses #carfentanil unknowingly. That’s the challenge, is that people do not that they are ingesting this,”