Fake Medicines Linked to Deaths

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Deadly nitazene drugs found in fake medicines

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Nitazenes can be stronger than both heroin and fentanyl, a prolific killer in the US .

Synthetic opioid drugs have been connected to 278 deaths across the country in a year .

The contaminated substances were identified in anonymous samples submitted to WEDINOS .

The government plans to make all types of nitazenes Class A drugs.

NCA believes nitazenes are being produced in Chinese labs and brought into the UK through the Royal Mail and other parcel operators.

Dark web marketplaces seen by the BBC suggest some of the same online sellers in China are advertising nitazene in bulk as well as adulterated benzodiazepines.

Border Force seized new synthetic opioids nine times in the past financial year .

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