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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Evans

Opioid ‘hundred times stronger than heroin’ linked to UK clubbing deaths for first time

Several London nightclubs have issued warnings over the blue-green pill that has caused two deaths and hospitalisations - (Facebook/Ministry of Sound)

Two people in their twenties have died in London after allegedly consuming a super-strong opioid drug, the first that experts have linked in the UK to the new substance.

Warned that they can be hundreds of times stronger than heroin, nitazenes are a newer form of synthetic opioid and can be mis-sold as drugs including oxycodone, which is a highly addictive prescription drug used to treat pain.

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