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New class of opioids that may be more potent than fentanyl emerges globally (www.theguardian.com)
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Nitazenes, synthetic opioids, could create latest drug crisis as scientists rush to find how to detect them in drug supply

A new class of potentially deadly synthetic opioids is suddenly appearing around the globe, including in the US, and scientists are rushing to figure out how to detect it in the drug supply.

Within the last month, nitazenes were implicated in four overdose deaths in Manchester, England; they were detected in over 2,500 counterfeit oxycodone pills in Hamilton, Canada; and they were found for the first time in the Netherlands. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has warned about their appearance in Washington DC.

Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioid first developed in the 1950s but never approved to go to market.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess you have to be one special kind of asshole to be in that business to begin with, but you'd think they would at the very least understand that you don't have customers if you kill them all...

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

fentanyl, from what I understand is quite useful in emergency rooms, I would imagine this might be similar.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah absolutely! I kinda misunderstood/misread what was being said. I thought they were saying it's being detected in drugs already