A deadly synthetic street drug called ‘Benzo Dope’ is on the rise...
A deadly synthetic street drug called ‘Benzo Dope’ is on the rise... The emerging drug contains two highly-potent highs, fentanyl and etizolam, and has been linked to a string of drug deaths in Canada.
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A highly dangerous synthetic street drug which increases the chance of fatal overdose is on the rise in Canada. Doctors have warned that the recently-emerged “benzo dope”, which most often contains a mixture of fentanyl and black-market benzodiazepines, leaves drug users even more prone to fatal overdoses than fentanyl alone – a drug which has already fuelled a drug death epidemic across the U.S. and Canada.
Fatal overdoses are more likely to occur after using benzo dope because the life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone, is not effective against benzos. Benzo dope, also known as ‘purple heroin’, is most commonly dark purple, blue and orange, but it has been found to be other colours. Drug forensic experts in British Columbia found that in October last year one in six (16 percent) of fentanyl deals were cut with benzodiazepines – a type of drug not usually found cut into opioids – compared to five per cent last January and zero before 2019. The most common benzo identified in benzo dope was etizolam, a super potent benzo that is fuelling record drug death rates in Scotland
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