NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There have been two recent incidents where a folded dollar bill was found with fentanyl inside in Giles County.

Law enforcement is urging everyone not to pick up folded money that they may find in public because a folded dollar bill can hold enough fentanyl to kill you just by touching it. Nashville has also identified the spread of fentanyl and other designer drugs as a problem.

“It’s been really kind of an explosion we’ve seen over the last 12 to18 months,” Aegis Sciences Corporation Director of Clinical Affairs, Dr. Josh Schrecker, said.

Metro Police confiscated more than five pounds of fentanyl in the last month and a half.

“Typically, when they find that much it can be an amount enough to impact a thousand lives or more,” Dr. Schrecker explained.

Dr. Schrecker's team at the Aegis Lab in North Nashville bought the machines to help detect these drugs and help stop the spread. He explains the machine detects what drugs are in that person's body.

“We’re actually looking at kind of the back end, something that someone has already taken and finding that in their system so that a provider can make an educated decision on exactly how to treat that individual,” Dr. Schrecker said.

Dr. Schrecker says this will help providers properly treat people since the synthetic drug market is always changing.

The lab would love to work with more government and law enforcement agencies moving forward to help save even more lives.