[HIGHLIGHTS] What is carfentanil, this ultra-powerful opioid that traffickers are trying to import into France?

Carfentanil, invented in the 1970s, is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl. It can be injected, smoked or snuffed.

It is a product used to put bison to sleep, “incapacitate” rhinos and tranquilize elephants. In France, the implementation of this drug, which is part of the fentanyloid family, ‘is very marginal,’ says Benjamin Rolland, head of the University Addictology Service of Lyon (Sual)