Several 2-benzylbenzimidazole opioids (also referred to as “nitazenes”) recently emerged on the illicit market. The most frequently encountered member, isotonitazene, has been identified in multiple f...

The Queensland government had threatened to shut down the service, saying it would either "legislate or regulate" to stop drug checking.

AbstractBackground. Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and its analogs are recent additions to semi-synthetic cannabinoids in the recreational drug market. Here, th

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China's anti-narcotics authorities have added nitazenes and 12 other psychoactive substances to the country's list of controlled drugs following the emergence of new alternatives to nitazenes and imid...

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A new handheld device developed at the University of Bath can instantly detect toxic synthetic opioids in street drugs, offering a powerful tool for harm reduction and overdose prevention.

A portable device that detects illicit street drugs on the spot and at very low concentrations, highlighting the dangers they pose, has been developed at Bath.

Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) are effective for treating obesity (BMI ≥30) and are being investigated as a novel treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). This secondary analys...

Another Chinese generic ban-evading SCRA, CH-FUBBMPDORA, has emerged. This study reports its first identification in Europe, its analytical characterization (NMR, Raman, FTIR, GC–MS, and HRMS), its c...

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Introduction Nitazene compounds are high potency, synthetic opioids, recently detected in the United States illicit opioid supply. This is a scoping review to summarize the available body of literatur...

A US medical society has written to tell us that some of its members will be unable to contribute to journal activities. This followed a government mandate that initially seemed to prohibit US federal...

Introduction Nitazenes are a group of potent synthetic opioids that have had increasing prominence as novel psychoactive drugs in the last 5 years. We describe emergency department nitazene-related ...

On December 7, 2023, police responded to a domestic violence call at an apartment in the Kopli district of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Upon arrival, they identified a man in his 30s, Sergei, and ...

Control programs such as anti-doping control and growth promotor residue surveillance programs are challenged by the emergence of designer drugs and t…

2-Benzylbenzimidazole derivatives or ‘nitazenes’ are increasingly present on the recreational drug market. Here, we report the synthesis and pharmacol…

This study provides a better understanding of the potential of NTS for drug checking purposes. Our findings indicate that NTS can theoretically alert to the presence of most nitazene analogues that ha...

The pool of people at risk of overdose from a new type of super-strength synthetic opioid is widening. Once linked to contaminated batches of heroin, nitazenes are increasingly being found in counterf...