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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Yeah, right.
With the Zombie Apocalypse already taking place on the streets of San Francisco, these "health authorities" could care less about them.
With this "new drug" the authorities will just ask for more $$$.
Because when fentanyl gets to be a bore …
“I want a new drug...”
Sounds like BS to me... 100 times more potent then fentanyl which is a 1000 times more potent then the previous etc.
Hopefully whoever takes this crap fies immediately and narcan needs to be outlawed for use on drug addicts...let em die. Helps clean up the idiots.
Sounds like a problem that will solve itself.
It's 100 trillion times more powerful than fentanyl. If you are even on the same planet as one molecule of this substance, it will kill you.
I see no mention of where it is being made and by who. And if China is involved in any way.
Dealers wonder why sales are down?.
Something I heard years ago - if a someone assumes room temperature from using street drugs, that dealer is sought out because he’s got the real deal in inventory. Horrible cycle.
Yes
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