Bizarre Drug Cocktails 'Don't Even Make Sense': TBI

NASHVILLE, TN -- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation lab technicians are increasingly finding fentanyl and other opioids mixed into street drugs to make bizarre and lethal drug cocktails, the agency said.

One evidence sample contained a combination of ketamine, tramadol, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. Another sample was powder that tested positive for a mixture of methamphetamine and fentanyl analogs acrylfentanyl and methoxyacetylfentanyl.

“These are combinations of drugs that don’t even make sense, and they are combinations that are lethal,” T.J. Jordan, Assistant Director of the TBI’s Drug Investigation Division, said. “It’s the latest example of why no illicit street drug is safe. And with combinations of these extremely toxic drugs being mixed with each other, it’s a cocktail that has us very concerned. We need to remind the public again that these already-dangerous drugs are becoming more and more deadly.”

The TBI has stepped up awareness efforts as samples of, in particular, heroin and cocaines have tested positive for the dangerous fentanyl. Fentanyl has also shown up in what buyers believed were legitimate prescription opioids.

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