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Common drugs being laced with deadly potent synthetics
Australian Community Media
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8/27/2024
Harm-reduction advocates are calling for new measures to combat a rise in deadly synthetic drugs. Video via AAP.
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Nitrazines are like nothing we've seen before in Australia. These can be 500
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times stronger than heroin and just two milligrams, an almost invisible speck, can
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be enough to cause fatalities. Nitrazines have been found mixed in with
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all sorts of other drugs from MDMA to heroin to cannabis products and
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disposable vapes. This puts hundreds of thousands of people in New South Wales
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at risk of harm. With the arrival of nitrazines in the New South Wales drug
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supply, the calls for drug checking are more and more urgent. Drug checking is
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now a matter of life or death in New South Wales. It's incredibly important
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that we recognise this is an opportunity for a reset to protect the community.
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The first step in terms of life-saving, that was a life-saving form, it's a life-saving method.
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It's actually, it can change from you stop breathing to you breathing within 30 seconds.
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