{"id":14693,"date":"2016-04-21T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T23:38:19","slug":"modern-crime-canadian-cops-seize-new-synthetic-opiate-100-times-more-powerful-than-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/modern-crime-canadian-cops-seize-new-synthetic-opiate-100-times-more-powerful-than-fentanyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Crime: Canadian Cops Seize New Synthetic Opiate 100 Times More Powerful than Fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"W-18\"<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 and 10,000 more powerful than morphine.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Staff Sergeant Dave Knibbs told a press conference<\/u><\/a> that this amount of powder could have produced hundreds of millions of W-18 pills.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

‘No matter what drug you use, fentanyl or W-18 may be hiding on it and it may kill you.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

W-18 is believed to come from labs in China that produce fake drugs and often sell them online.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Vice News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,3688,3986,2352],"tags":[11346,2861,11347,1699,11348],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}