Of all the skin-care and cosmetics products I recently bought online that turned out to be counterfeit, expired, used, or otherwise problematic, the one that still makes me squirm ...

Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an oxycodone tablet—and it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

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