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A powerful synthetic opioid that is responsible for hundreds of overdoses in the Midwest in the past month has shown up in Georgia, and officers are encouraged to use extreme care in handling it, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
During the past week, the GBI Crime Lab drug identification unit received three cases of carfentanil from separate seizures, GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said in a release.
Carfentanil is a tranquilizer used in large animals including elephants and, law enforcements officials have said, is expected to have caused overdoses in people who believed they were using heroin.
The sedative is…