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Farid Farid

Deadly class of sedative drugs detected across nation

Power synthetic opioids are being used to lace street drugs, leading to overdoses and deaths. (HANDOUT/AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE)

Opioids 1000 times stronger than morphine and an animal sedative used to lace street drugs have been detected in Australia's wastewater.

The discovery has been described as a "red flag" and comes as the deadly class of synthetic opioids - nitazines - claims dozens of lives in Australia.

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