NSW Government Urged to Act on Deadly Opioid Nitazenes

Published on August 27, 2024

Nitazenes, a deadly synthetic opioid many times stronger than fentanyl, has re-emerged in Australia, with the New South Wales (NSW) government pushed to take urgent action. Nitazenes, which can be up to 500 times stronger than heroin, have caused dozens of overdoses in NSW this year. While just two milligrams of the substance can be a fatal dose, they have been found mixed in drugs sold as MDMA, cocaine, ketamine, heroin, illicit vapes, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals. On Aug. 27, NSW MPs Alex Greenwich and Jeremy Buckingham launched a Synthetic Opioids Preparedness Plan, together with the Health Services Union, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and advocates Unharm, the Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies, NSW Users and AIDS Association, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Drug Policy Modeling Program....

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