If you're unfamiliar with the term "nitazenes," now is a good time to learn. They're a new class of synthetic opioid that can be up to 40x more potent than fentanyl. In Chicago last month, 7 people in were hospitalized in a single day due to nitazene overdoses. Thread 🧪
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How about we make poppy farming great again.
Be prepared for second OD team
https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/naloxone/
*I know it's technically not smoking.
As previously pointed out, these drugs aren't even approved for use by the FDA so no amount of regulating prescription drugs will have an effect.
This is more of a dea thing and they prefer the low risk marijuana targets.
Aren’t they an old group (1957) that didn’t find a clinical use but still required publication due to their potency?
Good foresight of the chemists then to warn of the group, didn’t stop other synthesising them elsewhere (moscow 1998..)
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02161116
In Switzerland there used to be an open drug scene with everything that comes with it. Then federal council Ruth Dreifuss was instrumental in changing our views on addiction and its management.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8616744/
Often I find that people don’t know how profound the changes championed by Ruth Dreifuss were for the most vulnerable, that there is a different way of coping as a society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-00kU4a4sc
Ask your local politicians if they can explain to you why there is no problem with IV drug use in Switzerland.
It rattled prisoners so much they voluntarily handed over hundreds of suspected nitazene tablets following a fatal overdose linked to the drug.
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https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41439835.html
https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feature/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nitazenes
This class of synthetic opioids will take a monumental toll in USA.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00241-3/fulltext
Would their use increase or decrease?
The reasons for using them don’t go away.