Victim In City’s First Overdose Death From New Street Drug Identified as SF Teen

A Teen Autopsy Marks the Arrival of a Deadly Drug in San ...

Victim In City’s First Overdose Death From New Street Drug Identified as SF Teen

A 16-year-old Lower Nob Hill resident has been identified as the victim in SF’s first fatal overdose involving cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid estimated to be 10 times more potent than fentanyl.

A teen autopsy marks the arrival of a deadly drug in San Francisco

Cychlorphine is among an array of new, deadly drugs upending the illicit drug market and confounding cities that are only starting to get a handle on fentanyl.

Teen Dies From Opioid Far More Potent Than Fentanyl

San Francisco officials didn't learn a new, ultra-potent opioid had arrived in the city from lab tests or drug busts. They learned it from the autopsy of a 16-year-old. In the New York Times , Jenna Russell reports on the April death of Dante Lacourte, whose mother assumed fentanyl was to...

SFPD Arrests 4 in San Francisco Fentanyl Pill Bust

San Francisco police tied a teen's fatal overdose to a counterfeit pill ring, arresting four suspects and seizing 20,000 pills and guns.

Drug Up To 10 Times As Potent As Fentanyl Found In Teen's Autopsy - American Liberty News

An autopsy identified cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid that officials say may be up to 10 times as potent as fentanyl, marking the drug’s first known appearance in a San Francisco overdose death. The April death of a 16-year-old San Francisco boy has provided a troubling sign that an exceptionally potent synthetic opioid has entered the […]