New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says for the first time, a potentially lethal new drug has made its way into Western New York.
At a news conference in Buffalo, Schneiderman said it’s a pill made to look like prescription Oxycodone…but it actually contains the synthetic opioid Fentanyl, a drug so powerful police won’t even touch it without wearing gloves. A dose the size of a couple of grains of sand can kill a person.
Schneiderman says these pills have turned up on the street in the Buffalo area. They’re sounding an alarm after a joint investigation by the Attorney General’s office, the DEA and New York State Police intercepted a package that contained 500 of these fake Oxy pills. Schneiderman says these same pills have killed people in California, and they’re going to kill people in New York.