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SUPER STRONG DRUGS ALERT
Daily Record
|August 13, 2025
Health chiefs' warning after spike in deaths blamed on synthetic opioids
DEADLY designer drugs have been linked to 38 deaths in just three months, health chiefs warned last night.
Addicts have now been issued a nationwide alert after a surge in overdoses linked to deadly nitazenes - a synthetic opioid often added to street heroin.
Other fake opioids like benzodiazepines and oxycodone have also been detected in post-mortem examinations in Scotland.
An alert by the Rapid Actions Drug Alerts and Response (Radar), led by Public Health Scotland (PHS), says the laboratorymade opioids pose a substantial risk of overdose, hospitalisation and death.
The alert was issued "to respond to increasing harms and availability in the drugs supply" after nitazene-type opioids were increasingly identified in hospital and post-mortems.
Between January and March 2025, nitazenes were seen in 38 deaths.
This story is from the August 13, 2025 edition of Daily Record.
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