A new type of opioid has been detected in street drugs in Toronto, causing increasing concerns that it could lead to more overdoses.

The drug is called cychlorphine and was first detected in the City’s unregulated drug supply about six weeks ago.

According to Karen McDonald with Toronto’s Drug Checking Service, the designer opioid has now turned up in several more samples collected from the downtown core and the city’s west end.

“It is a synthetic opioid that was developed to relieve pain but was never clinically approved for market.”

Initially, we found it on September 12 in a sample that was submitted to our program as a Percocet, but then just last week, we found it in three other samples; one that was submitted as oxycodone, one as a Percocet and one as hydromorphone,” explained Mc

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