Fake pills
Leaders of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Tennessee Department of Health, the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, and the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services issued a warning Monday about an increase in counterfeit prescription drugs being sold in Tennessee. In recent months, investigators have worked two dozen cases in Tennessee associated with pills made to look like a certain kind of prescription, but have tested to be a different drug during lab testing. TBI Director Mark Gwyn said that agents are discovering that Percocet pills being sold on the street are fake and often being made in labs that contain fentanyl. Percocet is a name for oxycodone, while fentanyl is a powerful pain medication that has a high risk of dependency. Fentanyl can be deadly in high doses and is 50 times as potent as heroin.
