The Taliban crackdown on opium production in Afghanistan has raised fears that dwindling heroin supplies could see the gaps in Europe's illicit drug markets instead flooded with lethally potent synthetic opioids.
Despite not all coroners yet testing for the drugs, the National Crime Agency was reported to have identified 65 nitazene deaths in the second half of 2023 alone with detections in drug supplies soaring fivefold in two years.
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