Police issue terrifying warning over 'Frankenstein drug' set to flood UK streets in 2025
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Police have issued a grave warning over fears of a highly lethal class of drugs they expect to kill drug users en masse in 2025. In 2024, nitazenes - which can be as much as 500 times stronger than heroin - claimed the lives of at least 230 people in the UK, but experts believe this number will increase next year as murderous dealers cut their product with the killer substances.
It's not just heroin addicts falling prey to the killer concoctions, as nitazenes have even been found in black market benzodiazepines like xanax and valium, which are used in a professional setting to ease symptoms of anxiety. Many Brits may have turned to the illegal pills desperate to alleviate the symptoms when they've been unable to get them through the proper channels.
Drug and alcohol treatment specialist Dr Judith Yates said: “We should be seriously worried about nitazenes in 2025. It’s a very, very dangerous drug because it only takes a microgram too much to kill - an amount so small it can’t be weighed. Nitazenes are essentially pain killers but, unless you’re a pharmacist with a proper laboratory, it’s hard to find the right dose to ease pain and not cause death.”.
Heroin pushers are facing a dramatic reduction in product due to the Taliban crackdown on opium production in Afgahnistan - the world's largest heroin exporter. Retired Dr Yates told The Sun: “Some heroin samples tested this year found no heroin at all, but nitazenes mixed with other drugs and caffeine. Poppies are planted in Afghanistan in November so it will be a couple of more months before anyone knows how many the Taliban have allowed to be planted.".
