At Least Thirteen Deaths From Nitazenes in Counterfeit Medicines: Less than a Milligram Can Be Fatal

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Counterfeit drugs: The life-threatening substance nitazene has claimed more lives than previously thought. They are hidden in counterfeit sleeping pills or…

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We start Saturday morning with PILLS. Well, not that we're taking them, of course (at least not now), but those pills have fatally fooled at least 13 people, according to research by Erasmus MC, at the request of the NOS – where the NFI (Netherlands Forensic Institute) had previously reported six deaths. Those 13 people turned out not to have taken the painkiller oxycodone, but a dummy pill containing nitazenes. To keep it simple: oxycodone = go…