WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Winona man on a warrant and found him carrying a small baggu of what they suspected was the prescription-only drug fentanyl. Aaron Patrick Devorak. 46, was jailed on the arrest warrant. Whether drug charges follows depends on what the state crime lab finds was in the baggy. There is no local equipment to test for fentanyl.
Devorak. Arrested in 450 block of East Sarnia in late morning.
Drug profile
Fentanyl is a potent a opioid primarily to alleviate pain after surgery and for late-stage cancer. It is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more than morphine. Besides death, overdosing can lead to addiction, confusion, respiratory depression, drowsiness, nausea, visual disturbances, dyskinesia, hallucinations, delirium, muscle rigidity, and constipation.