Nitazines: Deadlier Than Fentanyl, Increasingly Common

A new class of drugs has been discovered in autopsies of overdose victims and frequently in drug busts across the United States. The group of medicines called nitazenes is a unique group of synthetic opioids derived from 2-benzylbenzimidazole.   Nitazines were once legally used in other countries over seventy years ago, but they have never