Identification of N-pyrrolidino protonitazene in powders sold as heroin and associated with overdose clusters in Dublin and Cork, Ireland

S. KILLORAN ; S. McNAMARA ; P. KAVANAGH ; J. O'BRIEN ; R. LAKES | 2025
Dans Drug Testing and Analysis (Vol.17, n°3, March 2025) Article : Périodique

Synthetic opioids have been associated globally with adverse effects in drug users. The nitazene group of drugs is a relatively new addition to the synthetic opioid class emerging in Europe in 2019. Some nitazenes have been shown to be more pote[...]

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Injection of new psychoactive substance snow blow associated with recently acquired HIV infections among homeless people who inject drugs in Dublin, Ireland, 2015

C. GIESE ; D. IGOE ; Z. GIBBONS ; C. HURLEY ; S. STOKES ; S. McNAMARA ; O. ENNIS ; K. O'DONNELL ; E. KEENAN ; C. DE GASCUN ; F. LYONS ; M. WARD ; K. DANIS ; R. GLYNN ; A. WATERS ; M. FITZGERALD ; Outbreak Control team | 2015
Dans Eurosurveillance (Vol.20, n°40, 08 October 2015) Article : Périodique

In February 2015, an outbreak of recently acquired HIV infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) was identified in Dublin, following similar outbreaks in Greece and Romania in 2011. We compared drug and risk behaviours among 15 HIV cases a[...]

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