"Three people have died in north London from an emerging synthetic opioid that could be up to a hundred times stronger than heroin, as campaigners fear an immediate crisis posed by synthetic opioids in the capital. Two men in their 40s and 50s and one woman in her 40s died in Camden from Cychlorphine. The manufactured drug is thought to have a similar toxicity to nitazines, making accidental fatal overdoses more likely."
"The most recent data shows that London has seen the biggest jump in drug-related deaths in the UK. The number of people dying from drugs increased from 58 people per million people in 2023 to 75.6 per million last year. Nitazine-related deaths also increased four-fold in the UK in just a year. From June 2023 to May 2024, there was an average of four to five people dying a week from potent synthetic opioids."
"The whole of the UK is facing a drugs crisis. We've seen drug-related deaths rise 14 years in a row now. A lot of those deaths inevitably are taking place in London, yet in London we don't have a single drug checking service or drug consumption room. These are interventions proven around the world to be effective in preventing drug-related deaths. We certainly need to have more access to drug checking services to see if they do contain synthetic opioids."
Three people died in north London from Cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid reported to be up to a hundred times stronger than heroin. The victims were two men in their 40s and 50s and a woman in her 40s; deaths occurred on October 30, November 14 and November 23 in Camden Town, Gospel Oak and Highgate. Cychlorphine is thought to have similar toxicity to nitazines. The drug has been reported in four European countries and linked to a death in Kent. London has seen the largest rise in drug-related deaths, from 58 to 75.6 per million, with potent synthetic opioids causing an average of four to five deaths weekly.
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