SPECIAL REPORT: Fentanyl abuse - drug dealers selling prescription drugs

SPECIAL REPORT: Fentanyl abuse - drug dealers selling prescription drugs
Published: Jul. 8, 2016 at 9:49 PM EDT
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(WTVM) - There's a new threat on your street - and it's 40 times stronger than heroin.

It is fentanyl - a drug so potent, it's the favorite among drug dealers.

And it could cost users a trip to the morgue.

Is fentanyl behind a spike in drug overdoses? News Leader 9 investigates what happens when prescription drugs become serious addictions, and how dealers are buying the drugs online.

Fentanyl abuse, Monday, July 11 at 6 p.m. on News Leader 9.

And join the conversation to social media by using #FentanylAbuse.

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