Music festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds could be plagued by synthetic opioids up to 1000 times stronger than heroin, LBC has been warned.
It is believed that the global supply constraints on heroin is fuelling demand for ultra-potent narcotics like nitazines, an illegal man-made opioid often imported from Chinese labs.One senior policing source has even suggested to LBC that the supply of heroin in the UK could be completely exhausted within a year, with nitazenes filling the vacuum.
Director of operations at Bristol Drugs Project, Lydia Plant, expressed particular concern about this summer’s festival season, suggesting that the rising presence of synthetic opioids across the drug supply could result in trouble for recreational drug users.Ms Plant said: “This would be the first summer that we’ll potentially see nitazenes in the wider drugs market… Codeine tablets, ‘Benzos’ like Xanax or Valium, THC vapes ketamine.
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