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‘There has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs’: the rising global threat of nitazenes and synthetic opioids
In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin. Unknown to them, the drug had been fortified with …