(CBS News) It’s being called “gray death” and the new and dangerous drug combination underscores the ever-changing face of the opioid epidemic.
Investigators have found it and recorded overdoses blamed on it in Alabama, Georgia and Ohio.
The drug looks like concrete mix and varies in consistency from a hard, chunky material to a fine powder. It’s a combination of several opioids that are tied to thousands of fatal overdoses in the U.S., including heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil (sometimes used to tranquilize large animals, including elephants) and a synthetic opioid called U-47700.
