In the 90’s it was hard to miss the heroin crisis that Melbourne was grappling with, now in 2017 media is presenting us with an ice epidemic.

In the 90’s it was hard to miss the heroin crisis that Melbourne was grappling with, now in 2017 media is presenting us with an ice epidemic. Media keeps certain drugs in the headlines and it can be easy to get distracted and forget there are new and different substances on our streets. We have heard the warnings about fentanyl, now we are hearing about it’s even more concerning cousin, Carfentanil. Carfentanil is a drug that was developed as an animal tranquiliser and is 10,000 time more potent than morphine.