Among the seized items are nitazene pills, a powerful synthetic opioid that resembles oxycodone pills. The seizure of the drug — which is 25 times more potent than fentanyl — is the first of ...

Nitazene is a highly potent synthetic opioid which is mixed into street drugs like heroin. Support workers say addicts are “playing Russian roulette” because they have no idea whether nitazene ...

Earlier this week, the RCMP announced a large-scale drug bust in Labrador had resulted in the seizure of nitazene, a drug that's 25 times more potent than fentanyl. Memorial University pharmacy ...

The presence of a highly toxic synthetic opioid in Newfoundland and Labrador has drug safety advocates sounding the alarm over the deadly substance. Earlier this week, the RCMP announced a large ...

Protonitazene is in the nitazene class of drugs ... there have been less than 20 seizures of protonitazene across the United States in recent years, according to Allen. The DEA remains focused ...

It said checking for these substances was in the “public interest” after NSW’s first cases of nitazene dependence at Fairfield Hospital in July. Withdrawals were observed in four young adult ...

Police in Labrador have charged 17 people with drug trafficking, which includes moving a highly toxic synthetic opioid 25 times stronger than fentanyl never before seized in Newfoundland and Labrador.