Cocaine is being contaminated with powerful opioids called nitazenes. Here’s why it’s a dangerous mix

By Nicole Lee, Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
Monica Barratt, Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University

Earlier this month, drugs sold as cocaine in Melbourne were found to be contaminated with a powerful group of opioids, known as nitazenes.

These new synthetic drugs were also the suspected cause of four people being hospitalised…

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