Brazil Seeing Drugs Imported from China 50x Stronger than Fentanyl

[Tall Timbers]

Ricardo Leal, a forensic expert at the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox), warned of the dangers of the nitazenes synthetic super-opioids arriving to Brazil from China in an interview published by the Argentine outlet Infobae on Friday.

Leal stressed that “no country is prepared to deal with an emergency like this,” as the drug, which killed more than 100,000 people in the United States in 2023, is up to 50 times more potent than fentanyl.

“Personally, I am concerned first as an expert and then as a citizen. Although no deaths from nitazenes have been reported so far in Brazil, these are highly toxic substances that can cause serious and fatal poisonings,” Leal told Infobae. “It is a public health issue, not just a public safety issue.”

Report: Brazil Seeing Drugs Imported from China 50x Stronger than Fentanyl

Ricardo Leal, a forensic expert at the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox), warned of the dangers of the synthetic super-opioids.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

I've been praying "they" don't lace my brother's marijuana, which he buys on the street, with fentanyl. Yet something else to worry about. I hope he knows about it and whoever he gets it from has integrity (actually selling what he says he's selling, without anything "extra")

He's eligible for a marijuana card and I wish he'd get one and go to a licensed dispensary so he wouldn't end up addicted to something "they" put on the marijuana, or dead from an overdose. IIRC, there's financial help to buy at the dispensaries for certain diagnoses and income.