Synthetic opioids previously linked to UK deaths are being ‘advertised for sale on social media’
22-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com

Synthetic opioids previously linked to UK deaths are being ‘advertised for sale on social media’

Suppliers boast to undercover reporters about promoting illegal nitazenes, on SoundCloud and XLethal synthetic opioids linked to more than two deaths a week in the UK have been advertised for sale in thousands of posts on social media, an investigation has found.Suppliers boasted to undercover BBC reporters posing as dealers about how easy it was to use social media to promote nitazenes, an illegal group of drugs several times more powerful than heroin. Continue reading...
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