Scary Nitazines mis-sold as Valium & others
Addiction Economy Thought for Today - business, like water, will find a way.
Here more evidence about the invention and marketing of Nitazenes which are a synthetic opioid more addictive and deadly than Heroin and if it's possible to imagine, significantly more so even than Fentanyl.
Now for sale on thousands of sites on X and SoundCloud, and smuggled in as dog food and catering supplies. As soon as the seller's sites are taken down they pop up again says some new investigative journalism from the BBC.
The substance is so cheap and easy to make and required in such small quantities sales are exploding. What is particularly scary, is that they are also being mis-sold as being something quite benign, such as anti-anxiety drugs, Xanax and Valium.
Such small quantities are needed that overdosing is very easy to do. One pill can kill. Naloxone reverses the effects of Nitazenes as it does other opioids.
How social media companies and border controls are going to stop this, I have no idea.