A new class of drugs has been discovered in autopsies of overdose victims and frequently in drug busts across the United States. The group of medicines called nitazenes is a unique group of synthetic opioids derived from 2-benzylbenzimidazole. Nitazines were once legally used in other countries over seventy years ago, but they have never
The opioid epidemic continues to rage, despite the ebb and flow of the COVID-19 pandemic. There were more overdoses last year than ever before. Now, authorities tell people to watch out for a potent and deadly new class of opioids called ‘nitazenes.’ The drugs have been found in syringes collected by addiction research scientists throughout
While the COVID-19 crisis still looms over the public, a newcomer in the opioid class has hit the streets called nitazine, short for Protonitazene, or Isonitazene. The drugs have been found in user syringes around the U.S. Nitazene drugs are up to 20 times more powerful than fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than
