| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Opioide
USA. As new and lethal opioids flood US streets, crime labs race to identify them
ATLANTA – The yellow pills had already killed four before landing in Brian Hargett’s lab last month. They were clearly counterfeit — the letters P-E-R-C-O-C-E-T were as crooked as the dealer who had peddled them throughout central Georgia — but now his chemists had to figure out exactly what they were. And fast. Lives were still at stake; health officials wanted to alert the public about the phony pills. First, though, they had to know what was in them. (Fox News Health, 05.07.2017)