কুইন্সল্যান্ডে একটি মৃত্যুর সাথে যুক্ত টেডি বিয়ার-আকৃতির বড়িগুলিতে পাওয়া অত্যন্ত শক্তিশালী সিন্থেটিক ওপিওয়েডগুলি পাওয়া যায়
Teddy bear-shaped pills laced with synthetic opioids have been linked to a death in Queensland, triggering a public health alert over a group of highly potent illicit drugs called nitazenes. N-pyrrolidino-protonitazine and protonitazine have been identified in toxicology and detected in samples taken from pale yellow pills marked with the letter “Y” in the state’s southeast.
“The findings are related to a coronial matter currently under investigation,” a Queensland Health spokesperson said on Friday, but could not comment further on the fatality. A Queensland public health advisory released last week said N-pyrrolidino-protonitazine and protonitazine are nitazenes, “a group of very potent synthetic opioids that act like heroin or fentanyl, and tiny amounts can cause lethal toxicity.”
Their toxic effects can cause extreme harm: drowsiness, pinpoint pupils, coma, and slow or stopped breathing, and respiratory failure which can cause death. The health agency is urging anyone who suspects they may have the pills in their possession not to ingest them and to safely dispose of them. The alert is the second this year after a novel nitazene known as protonitazene was first detected in Australia in March.
Sign up: AU Breaking News Email. This detection in Queensland led to a health alert over a drug found in a shimmering brown powder being sold as desmetramadol, a painkiller and recreational drug. The Australian Federal Police said last year that recreational drugs, including cocaine and MDMA, may be mixed with nitazenes. In May, law enforcement said there had been a “spike related to nitazenes” after they were detected in counterfeit painkillers.
“We cannot understate the dangers around the use of this illicit, highly potent drug. If you choose to take it, you are gambling with your life,” Acting District Commissioner Paula Hudson said. Information about charitable organizations, online advertising, and externally funded content. If you don’t have an account, we’ll create a guest account for you to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. Please see our privacy policy for more information about how we use your data. We use Google reCAPTCHA to protect our website and Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The latest alert comes weeks after the Queensland parliament passed legislation to outlaw pill testing, a move that has been criticised by health experts and members of the public. At the time, Cameron Francis, chief executive officer of Loop Australia, which operated the Bowen Hills pill testing service in Queensland, called on the LNP to halt its bid to ban pill testing, saying the government’s decision would mean more deaths. “We don’t have an overdose monitoring system in Queensland. We don’t have early warning systems for local communities. So I absolutely think that this decision will cost lives,” he said.
Queensland Health said naloxone reverses the effects of nitazenes, and while nitazene detector strips are available, they were not always effective.
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প্রকাশিত: 2025-10-10 13:41:00
উৎস: www.theguardian.com
