New Fentanyl Cocktail Continues Trend of Harder Enforcement Creating Harder Drugs: Health Policy Analyst

The Department of Public Health for the City of Philadelphia reported in its alert that a more potent drug has appeared in Maryland, Ohio, Florida, and Canada.

Various forms of fentanyl. Courtesy of the University of Houston

Public health authorities are warning of a new fentanyl drug concoction laced with a veterinary sedative that makes it more potent than previous cocktails.

According to a libertarian drug policy analyst, the emergence of this new drug continues an acrimonious relationship between those peddling illicit substances and law enforcement that began in the first chapter of the War on Drugs: Prohibition.