Fentanyl use on the increase in GF

In the past ten days, five people have overdosed and two have died from Fentanyl in Great Falls. Fentanyl is an opioid that is 80% stronger than Morphine. The latest death was a man who was found dead early this morning.

County Attorney Josh Racki says Fentanyl is pouring into Great Falls from The Mexican Cartels and one pill is selling for as much as $30 on the Great Falls streets. Racki says Fentanyl has become so popular that it is about to over take Meth as the number one drug in Great Falls.

The county attorney says it's a bad drug because it looks like other narcotics and the doses can be pretty potent, so you never know what you will get. Right now police are making at least one arrest every day over the past two months here in Great Falls because of Fentanyl.