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Internal RCMP report warns nitazenes could surpass fentanyl as ‘defining issue in Canada’s opioid crisis’

An internal RCMP report says that nitazenes — synthetic opioids police describe as “20 to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl” — could become a defining feature of the opioid crisis in Canada in the coming years.

Those drugs, which have been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada, “are emerging as a growing threat,” the report says.

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