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Nitazenes: synthetic opioids more deadly than fentanyl are starting to turn up in overdose cases

By Colin Davidson, Professor of Neuropharmacology and Head of School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire

The synthetic opioid fentanyl is well known for the many lives it has claimed – mainly in the US, but elsewhere too. Now, a less well-known class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes is starting to crop up in overdose cases, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nitazenes have recently been the subject of a national…

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