Researchers and frontline workers are raising the alarm over powerful drugs showing up in Australia for the first time after a series of overdose deaths.
Police in Victoria say forensic tests suggest four people who died in a Melbourne home in June had a synthetic opioid in their system.
Guest: Michael Farrell, Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW.
Producer:
Max Chalmers
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A granular brown powder sample tested at CanTEST was found to contain N-pyrrolidino protonitazene.
Health Policy, Drugs