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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tamara Davison and Sian Baldwin

What are nitazenes? Powerful drug '500 times stronger than heroin' behind London clubland panic

A deadly synthetic opioid named Nitazene is sending London clubland into a panic as two more were killed by the drug.

The drugs, believed to be up to 500 times stronger than heroin, is said to be “spreading like wildfire” around the capital on the party scene, and now warnings have been made after two further people died in suspected drug overdoses from the highly potent drugs.

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