Opiates Fentanyl and Carfentanyl have been connected to dozens of drug deaths in the UK. The drugs, the former of which was responsible for the musician Prince ’s In May, police linked the death of a 43-year-old man in Wakefield to carfentanyl-laced heroin. fatal overdose, are being added to heroin and have so far been found in the bodies of up to 46 people who have died in the country this year from uncertain causes. In a statement released on Thursday, the Home Office said it had “taken immediate action against those involved in supplying these drugs into our country”. Carfentanyl is 10,000 stronger. The former drug has been linked to the rising numbers of overdose deaths and opioid addiction in the US.
Opiates Fentanyl and Carfentanyl have been connected to dozens of drug deaths in the UK. The drugs, the former of which was responsible for the musician Prince ’s fatal overdose, are being added to heroin and have so far been found in the bodies of up to 46 people who have died in the country this year from uncertain causes. In a statement released on Thursday, the Home Office said it had “taken immediate action against those involved in supplying these drugs into our country”. Carfentanyl is 10,000 stronger. The former drug has been linked to the rising numbers of overdose deaths and opioid addiction in the US.