Canberra's pill-testing service has issued a red alert and added confirmation to recent police warnings that a very powerful and potentially deadly form of synthetic opioid has been found in the ACT masquerading as oxycodone.
CanTEST's clinical lead David Caldicott said this variant of the synthetic opioid nitazene, known as N-pyrrolidino isotonitazene, had not been seen before in the ACT.