Deadly drugs find new Aussie market

News.com.au - 22/04
Deadly drugs that have killed young people across the country have been found by Northern Territory health workers for the first time.

Deadly drugs that have killed young people across the country have been found by Northern Territory health workers for the first time.

The discovery has prompted health authorities to issue warnings three weeks out from Darwin’s biggest music festival.

Nitazenes are a category of synthetic opioid which can be 500 times as potent as heroin. They have been linked to 17 deaths across Australia since the substance began popping up in 2021. Nitazenes have now been found in the NT for the first time, in the form of tablets, the NT Health announced on Thursday.

“Drugs seized in the NT have been found to contain nitazenes. This is the first detection of this substance in the NT,” t...
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