These synthetic opioids are taking over from fentanyl, but even a tiny dose can be lethal.
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Opioid overdoses are now complicated by a powerful animal tranquilliser.
Unlike opium, nitazenes and other synthetic opioids can be produced anywhere in the world using precursor chemicals that are often uncontrolled.
As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?
Cocaine and other illicit drugs have been found to be contain nitazenes, a dangerous class of synthetic opioids.
Nitazenes can be up to 50 times stronger than fentanyl. They’re not yet common in Australia so now is the time to implement policies to reduce their harm and limit their uptake.
Initially developed in the 1950s, nitazenes are a type of synthetic opioid that has reappeared in Philadelphia’s street drug supply.
An overdose death in Boulder County, Colorado, was linked to a powerful new formulation of a designer drug never approved for use in humans.
Nitazenes were developed as a powerful class of painkiller in the 1950s, but they were abandoned – until now.
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Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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PhD Candidate, Monash University
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Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute / enAble Institute, Curtin University
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Professor of Neuropharmacology, University of Lancashire
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Pharmacology, Durham University
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