This week on Century of Lies: Synthetic Opioids Hit Europe.
There have been warning signs recently of an emerging toxic drug crisis in Europe. Heroin still dominates the opioid market but the rise of nitazenes, which are a class of powerful synthetic opioids, poses a growing threat. The toxic unregulated drug supply increases the risk of overdose and complicates harm reduction efforts. To explore this topic, the Correlation-European Harm Reduction Network in collaboration with the Ana Liffey Drug Project, the Trimbos Institute, and the City of Zurich held a webinar May 9 entitled Nitazenes in Europe – How Should We Prepare?
On this edition of Century we hear portions of that webinar, including presentations by Leo Jefferys, Operations Manager at the European Network of People who Use Drugs; Mat Southwell, harm reduction advocate and Managing and Technical Director at Coact Technical Support Limited; and Dominique Schori, Manager of the Drug Information Center for the city of Zurich, Switzerland. https://correlation-net.org/
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