Ottawa police say a purple putty-like substance possibly containing the dangerous drug fentanyl was found during an investigation, and that there could be more out there. Police seized the substance Wednesday during the execution of a search warrant at an apartment in the 100 block of Carillon Street in Vanier. Fentanyl has been found laced in other drugs and in a number of forms, but it hadn't been seen in the putty form in Ottawa until now, according to Ottawa police Const. Other police forces have found the drug in a similar-looking putty form before, however, leading Ottawa police to "strongly suspect" the drug is present in the substance they seized, Benoit said. Nearly three quarters of all accidental opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl or fentanyl analogues, the report found.

Source: CBC News May 10, 2018 20:26 UTC