State Narcotics Bureau Fault Fake Oxycodone Pills
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics said fake Oxycodone pills are linked to at least two recent deaths in central Oklahoma and more could be at risk.
Agency spokesman Mark Woodward said two individuals overdosed and died the afternoon of Sunday, May 10, in Oklahoma County after buying counterfeit Oxycodone pills that tested positive for fentanyl.
It is often purchased on the black market by drug organizations, which use it as filler in heroin or press the powder into pills that resemble legitimate American pharmaceuticals,” Mr. Woodward explained.
He said OBN agents found some of the counterfeit pills inside the home of one of the overdose victims.
“We are concerned there are more of these pills circulating the streets of Oklahoma and we could see additional overdose victims.”
