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Highly potent opioids are showing up in drug users in Africa for the first time, report says (apnews.com)

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A new report has for the first time found traces of highly potent opioids known as nitazenes in drugs consumed in Africa’s retail drug market.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/ITtov

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sort of like the CIA and the crack epidemic, wonder how much influence China's push into Africa has on this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Probably big. There was an interesting bit on NBC news last night about chinese gangs running drugs in Oklahoma and other states. Apparently, they have incredible grow ops and dgaf if they lose $1m in drugs to law enforcement on a regular basis.

Must be a really big op....