Scottish Government has repeated warnings on a deadly, super-strength drug that they believe could cause havoc among vulnerable communities
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After a man and a woman in their 40s died in Basildon, Essex, officers discovered etonitazene - known as pyro - at the scene.After the announcement that drug deaths in Scotland were showing signs if rising once more, the Scottish Government repeated its advice on nitazenes, which emerged as a red alert threat in Public Health Scotland’s RADAR information harvesting system last December.
Nitazenes were designed as painkillers 50 years ago but were regarded as too potent and addictive to ever be prescribed.
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