According to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) most illicit drug substances are smuggled through land Ports of Entry ...

A Lincolnshire health service says it is seeing a rise in synthetic opioids, such as nitazene. The moves come after a BBC investigation found a firm had been illegally exporting the drugs.

This is largely due to the introduction of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times as powerful as morphine, which is often mixed into heroin and cocaine supplies and can be consumed unknowingly.

“Nitazenes are potent and often deadly synthetic opioids that have spread rapidly across global retail drug markets, including European countries, particularly since 2022," the report reads ...

The Assistant Narcotics Controller, Deo-Donne Dafeamekpor, has said that the sale of unapproved drugs in Ghana, particularly synthetic opioids like Royale 225, which are often misused as sexual ...

Synthetic Opioid Overdose Prevention and Reversal (SOOPR™) targets an unmet challenge in the illicit opioid crisis as current rescue medications are not designed for synthetic opioids ...

“The rise of counterfeit pharmaceuticals containing highly potent synthetic opioids means that what appears to be a simple painkiller could contain substances up to 40 times stronger than ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Individuals in physically demanding jobs have a higher incidence of psychostimulant involvement in synthetic opioid overdose deaths. Data indicates that 53.6% of ...