The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office is issuing an urgent warning about green fentanyl.
Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the only difference between green fentanyl and regular fentanyl is the color.
“Make no mistake about it. Fentanyl is fentanyl is fentanyl. And whether it is pink, green, or any other color, it is 100% deadly,” Sticker said.
The sheriff’s office says green fentanyl has the consistency of sidewalk chalk, gel or tar. It says it can easily be mistaken for cannabis or other less potent drugs. Sheriff Sticker says green fentanyl has been linked to an increase in opioid-related emergency calls throughout the Northshore and greater New Orleans.
“We’ve probably seen about a 30% increase in what we’re coming in contact with, on the street and in local hospitals, as far as overdoses and use,” Sticker noted.
Sticker reminds you that fentanyl is extremely powerful – about 50 times more potent than heroin. Sticker says a dose equivalent to just two grains of salt is enough to kill you.
“These guys are not chemists that are mixing it per se, and the potential there for deadly doses is extremely high,” Sticker warned.