Detection of powerful nitazenes in samples from 60 sites a ‘red flag’ amid surging use to lace street drugs
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Synthetic opioids a thousand times stronger than morphine and an animal sedative used to lace street drugs have been detected in Australia’s wastewater.
The discovery has been described as a “red flag” and comes as the deadly class of synthetic opioids – nitazines – claims dozens of lives in Australia.
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