The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says America is in the middle of an opioid addiction and Alabama is no exception.
Experts say overdoses are spiking in part because dealers are cutting or mixing heroin with Fentanyl, a drug that's about 100 times stronger than heroin.
Now while that's bad a new drug called W-18 is also being used to cut heroin and many say it's an instant death sentence
"We're hearing that the heroin and Fentanyl overdoses are 200 times as much this year already," George King said. He is the director of Royal Pines, a men's rehabilitation center in Alabama.
King says a lot of the guys who come through the center are getting a second chance. But with the news of a deadly new drug out there being used to cut Heroin. King says there won't be any second chances to give if you put it in your veins. "To the common man that does simple math, that's almost certain death," King said.
The drug is called W-18, that simple math King is talking about, adds up to be some pretty large numbers. "This W-18, again, is 100 times more portent than Fentanyl, 10,000 times more potent than morphine and heroin," King said. One of the scariest facts about this drug, he says, is the unknown .
."In legal terms, it doesn't even exist. It's there but there's not enough understanding of it, and clarification of it, and classification of it, that they are able to deem it illegal or legal at this point," King said. He says just using a small amount of the heroin-W-18 combination could immediately kill you.
We checked with Birmingham police to see if the drug had made its way to our state. They say they have no record of it being here yet, but they said they had heard about it.
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