Modern Crime: Canadian Cops Seize New Synthetic Opiate 100 Times More Powerful than Fentanyl

This is yet another step in China’s plan to weaken the U.S. and it’s allies without ever having to fire a shot or use it’s military. First it was Bath Salts, now this. I will be doing a full report on China’s 4GW Strategy later this month.-SF

For the second time in a year, police in Alberta have uncovered a drug called W-18, a synthetic opioid that’s 100 times more powerful than fentanyl — and 10,000 more powerful than morphine.

Police in Edmonton announced Wednesday they seized four kilograms of the substance in powder form during a raid carried out in December during a fentanyl investigation. The powder was then sent to Health Canada, which confirmed on Tuesday that it was W-18.

Staff Sergeant Dave Knibbs told a press conference that this amount of powder could have produced hundreds of millions of W-18 pills.

Dr. Laura Calhoun with the province’s health services department added that the discovery of W-18 comes amid a countrywide fentanyl crisis. The number of fentanyl-related deaths in Canada continues to climb; from 2009 to 2014 there were an estimated 655 deaths linked to fentanyl overdoses. In 2015 in Alberta alone, there were more than 210 deaths involving fentanyl use.

“Alberta Health services is currently tracking all opioid presentations to hospital emergency departments and in-patient units,” she continued. “No matter what drug you use, fentanyl or W-18 may be hiding on it and it may kill you.”

Last August, police in Calgary seized 110 W-18 pills, believed to be the first time police got ahold of the drug, which has no clinical use and is currently not regulated under Canada’s controlled Drug and Substances Act.

‘No matter what drug you use, fentanyl or W-18 may be hiding on it and it may kill you.’

W-18 is believed to come from labs in China that produce fake drugs and often sell them online.

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