A new, potentially lethal drug has been discovered in a St. Mary Parish traffic stop. It’s called “gray death” and it is heroin cut with fentanyl. St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s spokesperson David Spencer says different batches contain different levels of fentanyl and just touching it could have bad consequences.
“It could be absorbed through touching it with the skin. Now, how much and is it really lethal that way? Heck, nobody really knows. This is not something that if you come upon it, you want to play with it,” said Spencer.
Some reports indicate the potency is up to 10,000 times that of morphine. Spencer says it doesn’t look like heroin that officials are used to seeing on the street.
“It looks like little limestone pebbles or gray rocks that you might see in somebody’s driveway or small pieces of concrete,” said Spencer.
Spencer says this drug is fairly new, first popping up around Georgia and Alabama in 2017.
“It started popping up after that in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and we have just not seen it here. Our guys deal with drugs on a daily basis and when this traffic stop was made and we came upon this stuff, it was new to us,” said Spencer.
If someone sees this drug, Spencer says alert authorities.
