RCMP Bust Secret Quebec Lab, Seize Pills Potentially 25 Times More Powerful Than Fentanyl

RCMP Bust Secret Quebec Lab, Seize Pills Potentially 25 Times More Powerful Than Fentanyl
RCMP officers are seen outside a home in Drummondville, Que., during a raid of a clandestine laboratory on Aug. 1, 2024. RCMP handout photo
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The RCMP have dismantled a clandestine laboratory east of Montreal suspected of manufacturing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills thought to contain protonitazepyne, a synthetic opioid approximately 25 times more potent than fentanyl.

Four people were arrested and “several hundred thousand counterfeit pills” were seized after a home in Drummondville, Que. was searched Aug. 1, the RCMP said in a press release.