Drugs being cut with deadly synthetic opioids stronger than heroin

Synthetic opioids believed to be up to 300 times stronger than heroin are being detected in drugs in the UK.
A crackdown by the Taliban has successfully stemmed the flow of heroin from Afghanistan, leading to a boom in the easier to produce synthetics, such as nitazenes.
These drugs, which are being cut with heroin, cannabis, cocaine and black market diazepam, are said to be causing severe side effects in users - and increasing the risk of overdosing.
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