The rise of synthetic opiates in the drugs market is one of the biggest challenges we have faced, writes The Wallich's ...

Fentanyls kill. The threat is plural and potent, as illicit laboratories continually concoct new forms of the drug that ...

Nitazenes have been linked to 284 deaths in the UK since June 2023. Those who die from the synthetic opioids usually take ...

A substance said to be stronger than notorious opioid fentanyl has been connected with hundreds of deaths in the UK this year ...

The warning said the nitazenes were mostly found as small blue counterfeit oxycodone tablets - shown here on the Welsh Emerging Drugs and Identification of Novel Substances (WEDINOS) website A ...

There are an average of 49 drug poisoning deaths weekly involving opiates - such as heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl and including ...

Figures show that in the last year, there have been 130 examples of someone trying to buy medicines illegally and instead receiving substances contaminated with nitazenes. These man-made opioids ...

Deadly synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which can be so potent that a dose the size of a grain of sand can kill, have already been linked to at least 284 deaths in just over a year. Last ...

Opera singer Alex Harpum, 23, had tried to buy Xanax before he was found dead in his student flat last July, his mother said ...

PNNL scientists are developing ways to detect and identify not only new, previously unseen forms of fentanyl but also newer and more dangerous synthetic opioids known as nitazenes. The PNNL team ...

Nitazenes can be stronger than both heroin and fentanyl, a prolific killer in the US. Martin Raithelhuber, an illicit synthetic drug expert from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, ...

Thus came the rise of ultra-potent opioids like fentanyl, which is increasingly mixed with other drugs including stimulants, xylazine, benzodiazepines and nitazenes. If any of these drug names ...