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Posted on 04/25/2026 3:41:17 PM PDT by Libloather
San Francisco health authorities are raising urgent concerns after a powerful synthetic opioid was detected in the city for the first time, and is already being tied to a fatal overdose earlier this month.
Officials with the San Francisco Department of Public Health say the drug, known as cychlorphine, surfaced in a counterfeit pill, prompting alarm over its extreme potency and unpredictable presence in the illicit drug market.
“We believe it is more potent than fentanyl. It was found we believe in someone using a counterfeit pill,” Daniel Tsai, director San Francisco Department of Public Health told ABC7.
Law enforcement officials say the substance was first identified just last year.
“The first time DEA saw it was in 2024 at one of our labs down in Florida,” Bob Beris, special agent in Charge of the DEA San Francisco Field Division told ABC. “I mean, a pill can show up in Chicago and, you know, 30 hours later, it can be in San Francisco, you know, using the I-80, the 99, I-5. These are major corridors.”
Authorities warn that cychlorphine is not confined to pills alone and can be hidden across multiple street drugs, making detection and avoidance especially difficult.
“It can be mixed into a pill. It can be sold as a powder. It can be mixed in with cocaine. It can be sold as cocaine. Again, just because we haven’t seen some of these examples yet doesn’t mean it’s not out there,” Beris said.
Public health experts are also sounding the alarm over testing limitations, saying current drug-checking tools may not catch the substance.
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Imagine putting that in an agricultural drone. Oh, wait.....
But why would our enemies want to kill off the drug users, if anything they would want more of them to burden the system.
AI is going to turn out to be a GREAT pharmacological inventor....
Oddly enough... If all the drug addicts in the world take this new drug and die... Wouldn’t that solve our drug problem??? It would also put a major dent in the homelessness problem too.
Lots of junkies arent homeless scum…. Plenty of CEOs and politicians are out there looking for the next best high
Avoid direct eye contact with cychlorphine.
Nobody has ever made a thorough good [thank you George] and accurate [based on testing] “survey” of all of the Congress Critters...
Drug warriors would be deeply saddened. Not to mention broke.
Because when fentanyl gets to be a bore …
Would I be wrong in saying that nearly all young people, 16 to 30 years old, would or have use recreational narcotics if and when they had the opportunity to do so.?
C’mon how the hell could you even handle or mix something like this?
Yes. I had the chance along with many of my friends, yet we never did, not once.
With that potency it would require an expert pharmacist to compound a dose accurately....
It ain’t easy to do such a thing... in olden days druggists would add a accurately measurable amount, say 1 gram of the medicinal and add it to say 1000ml of a fluid to be able to easily measure out a reasonable dosage... i.e. tonics, syrups etc pills are MUCH harder to compound. and with super potency nearly impossible to do unless you are VERY good at compounding!
So with something like fentanyl analogs its a crap shoot trying to make up an accurate dose... leads to unintentional deaths.
Sorry to say that, but we have given the druggies the soft-touch, it's not your fault, Stewart Smalley, approach for long enough.
If they are SO STUPID as to take uncontrolled pills from a dealer when everyone knows the pills are being doped with fentanyl, etc., in unknown quantities, then they, sad to say, deserve this fate.
Two options: They OD and die quietly and with really no discomfort. OR, they become protracted addicts, torturing and humiliating their families and friends (who soon abandon them) THEN become public nuisances and disease vectors, or worse, dealer-addicts who kill, steal, and conspire to enlarge their trade. Then they eventually get caught, go to prison, or get killed or OD.
Any way you look at it, option 1 is WAY less harmful to everyone.
Flame away. I speak the truth.
Found in San Francisco.
What are the odds!
Re “Claims first victim”
Yeah… It’s terrible when a drug leaps out from ambush and forcibly injects itself into an innocent, helpless, human being, just minding his own business…
Zero sympathy.
You stick that crap into your body you might as well be playing Russian roulette with four full chambers and one empty.
Stupid people… Proving Darwin correct once again.
Don’t they say this about every new drug?
Bad Drug- but there’s a really nasty flesh eating drug addicts get hooked on too- Krocodil they call it because of what it does to the skin- then it eats large sections of muscle away- yet they ‘can’t’ quit-
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