Any time I hear "fent sold as meth/coke" my disbelief is at 99.99%. The article says this fent was sold as both coke and meth. Those drugs look nothing alike, make up your mind. And the second anyone snorted them, they would 100% notice it was not meth or coke, which both have a very unique taste and experience. It doesn't make sense. A rare mixup or cross contamination I would believe. Intentionally doing this only makes sense to ignorant fools who have never done the drugs involved. Cutting coke or meth with opioids would make them seem weaker, not more powerful, and you'd make more profit just cutting it with the cheapest inert powder in your town.
Until I see actual lab tests from a *wide variety* of batches showing *signficant* levels of fent analogues in coke and meth, I'll stay suspicious of reports written by "journalists" who literally couldn't tell tar heroin from meth.