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As heroin in Afghanistan dries up, Europe could face an overdose crisis like the U.S.
2 months ago

As heroin in Afghanistan dries up, Europe could face an overdose crisis like the U.S.

Salon  

For anyone living in America, the nightmarish shift in a contaminated drug supply is all too familiar. “The heroin market seemed to have been prepared for the first year of the Taliban ban: there was enough heroin in circulation and stocked up to dampen any supply shocks,” explained Andre Gomes, head of comms for the British charity Release, which provides …

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Criminals set up fake online pharmacies to sell deadly counterfeit pills, prosecutors say
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Criminals set up fake online pharmacies to sell deadly counterfeit pills, prosecutors say

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A network of illegal drug …

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A synthetic opioid more potent than fentanyl is spreading across Australia with deadly consequences
3 months, 1 week ago

A synthetic opioid more potent than fentanyl is spreading across Australia with deadly consequences

ABC  

Sue La Velle is waiting for answers after her son was found dead inside a Melbourne home. Just days after their deaths, Victoria Health issued a warning about cocaine containing nitazenes, which had caused "recent serious harms in Melbourne". Organised crime groups are increasingly cutting other drugs with nitazenes because they "see it as a cheap alternative", AFP Commander Paula …

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Most drug deaths due to 'polysubstance' use: EU report
6 months, 1 week ago

Most drug deaths due to 'polysubstance' use: EU report

Hindustan Times  

Synthetic opioids continue to concern European drug agencies. Despite a steady rise in synthetic opioids, heroin is still the most common drug used in the European Union The top takeaway from the European Drug Report 2024 : Drug users in Europe are increasingly using more than one drug at the same time — a practice known as "polydrug" or "polysubstance" …

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Queensland opens first permanent pill testing service as experts warn drugs are becoming 'more and more risky'
8 months ago

Queensland opens first permanent pill testing service as experts warn drugs are becoming 'more and more risky'

ABC  

Urgent public health alerts about the presence of deadly substances in illicit drugs will be sent out within hours of a sample being tested at Queensland's first fixed-site drug checking service. "We're seeing a lot more contaminants turning up in unexpected places," said Cameron Francis, CEO of The Loop Australia, a not-for-profit organisation set up six years ago to deliver …

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Report: China is fueling US fentanyl crisis by subsidizing production
8 months ago

Report: China is fueling US fentanyl crisis by subsidizing production

Daily Mail  

China 's leaders give tax breaks to companies that produce fentanyl chemicals and cause some 80,000 US overdose deaths each year, a damning House report warns. Beijing is fueling America's fentanyl crisis by subsidizing the manufacture of materials used by traffickers to make pills outside the country, say papers from a committee on China. 'Through its actions, as our report …

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China gives TAX BREAKS to the fentanyl-making firms behind some 80,000 US overdose deaths each year: House report says Beijing sows 'chaos and devastation'
8 months ago

China gives TAX BREAKS to the fentanyl-making firms behind some 80,000 US overdose deaths each year: House report says Beijing sows 'chaos and devastation'

Daily Mail  

China's leaders give tax breaks to companies that produce fentanyl chemicals and cause some 80,000 US overdose deaths each year, a damning House report warns. The carnage of fentanyl deaths on US streets is underpinned by government tax breaks for Chinese chemical producers, says a damning report Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden agreed in November to work …

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Revealed: New super-strength opioids have already claimed lives behind bars, as prisons ‘not ready’ for influx
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Revealed: New super-strength opioids have already claimed lives behind bars, as prisons ‘not ready’ for influx

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lethal synthetic opioids have been detected in the UK in …

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How Britain lost its war on drugs
10 months, 1 week ago

How Britain lost its war on drugs

Hindustan Times  

As a general practitioner in a deprived inner-city neighbourhood of Birmingham, Judith Yates had a close-up view of the evolution of Britain’s illegal drugs market. In 2010, frustrated by how little ground the government was making in its war on drugs, Dr Yates started visiting the local coroner’s office to collect information on drug deaths. The drug had been found …

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Synthetic opioids like fentanyl could increase in Australia soon. Experts say we need to prepare now
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl could increase in Australia soon. Experts say we need to prepare now

ABC  

Lachlan isn't worried about unintentionally using fentanyl, but he's acutely aware of what could happen if he did. And over the last decade, synthetic opioids like fentanyl have become more common across North American drug markets, including being found present in illicit opioids like heroin. Monash Addiction Research Centre deputy director Suzanne Nielsen says Australia's drug supply routes aren't currently …

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What’s fentanyl, and why have deaths due to drug overdose spiked in the US?
1 year, 2 months ago

What’s fentanyl, and why have deaths due to drug overdose spiked in the US?

Al Jazeera  

In 2021, two-thirds of drug-related overdose deaths in the US were linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Although fentanyl is approved for medical use, especially in pain management, more than 150 people in the US die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Fentanyl overdose deaths in the US More than 106,000 people died of a drug …

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CDC updates opioid prescribing guidelines with new recommendations on tapering or continuing prescriptions
2 years, 1 month ago

CDC updates opioid prescribing guidelines with new recommendations on tapering or continuing prescriptions

CNN  

CNN — For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids to treat short-term and long-term pain. Advice for doctors and patients The guidelines recommend that when starting opioid therapy for any pain patient – acute, subacute or chronic – “clinicians …

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
2 years, 3 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I wouldn’t minimize fentanyl as …

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Opioid fight needs new strategy, Cabinet leadership: report
2 years, 10 months ago

Opioid fight needs new strategy, Cabinet leadership: report

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises. With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead. “This is one of …

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Cabinet-level leader and new approach needed to tackle opioid crisis, report says
2 years, 10 months ago

Cabinet-level leader and new approach needed to tackle opioid crisis, report says

LA Times  

Volunteers distribute free doses of naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, in Charleston, W.Va. With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits after the COVID-19 pandemic finally recedes, a shift that public health experts expect in the months ahead. “This is one of our most pressing national …

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New opioids - ten times the strength of fentanyl - create battleground for US medics
3 years ago

New opioids - ten times the strength of fentanyl - create battleground for US medics

The Telegraph  

Nitazenes were created over half a century ago as pain medication but they were never approved for use in the US. According to Alex Krotulski, associate director at the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education in Pennsylvania, nitazenes have become the “most popular subclass of new synthetic opioids,” and are “way more potent than fentanyl, which is really scary.” …

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US drug overdose deaths top 100,000 in one year in 28.5% increase
3 years, 1 month ago

US drug overdose deaths top 100,000 in one year in 28.5% increase

Al Jazeera  

US CDC figures show most fatal overdoses – at least 64,000 – are due to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. More than 100,000 people have died from drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period ending April 2021, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown – an almost 30 percent uptick in fatalities …

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The Taliban says it wants to ban drugs in Afghanistan. Here’s why it can’t
3 years, 3 months ago

The Taliban says it wants to ban drugs in Afghanistan. Here’s why it can’t

LA Times  

An Afghan farmer harvests opium gum from a poppy field on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif in Nangarhar province in 2018. The militant group recently pledged to ban the production and sale of drugs, but weaning the country off the opium trade will be next to impossible given the nation’s dire economic situation and the lifeline poppy cultivation provides for Afghanistan’s …

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'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks
4 years, 1 month ago

'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks

NPR  

'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks Enlarge this image Kim Ryu for NPR Kim Ryu for NPR He is a slight, bespectacled man. "Currently, there is basically no information related to the illegal sales of fentanyl-class chemicals on websites within Chinese borders or pharmaceutical and chemical platforms," China's National Narcotics Control Commission said in …

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