Nitazenes: Beware Of A New Deadly Drug 50x Worse Than Fentanyl, 1,000x More Potent Than Morphine

Because of the potency of the nitazenes, symptoms can develop rapidly after someone is exposed, killing them before they can get medical care.

An emerging street drug is starting to gain attention. The drug called Nitazenes, an extremely addictive synthetic opioid, sometimes called “Frakenstein” on the streets, is reportedly so bad it can be 10-50 times worse than fentanyl, and even 1,000 times more potent than morphine.

This drug is still fairly unknown to the general populous but researchers are becoming more vocal about it, highlighting its “zombifying” effects and the instant addiction it creates; and in some cases if the dose and formula is strong enough it can result in instant death.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency currently classifies the different formulas of nitazenes as Schedule 1 drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, which means they cannot be distributed pharmaceutically and have a high risk of abuse.

Christopher P. Holstege, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia, explained in an article that these designer drugs “have relatively little information on how the human body reacts to nitazenes because the drugs have never gone through clinical trials. But lab tests show certain nitazenes could be hundreds to thousands of times more potent than morphine and 10 to 40 times stronger than fentanyl.”

The professor went on to explain how these drugs appear on the streets, the forms, and the notable signs of an overdose:

Nitazene first appeared in 2019 in the Midwest as a white powdery substance similar to cocaine. It later appeared on the streets of Washington, D.C., as yellow, brown and white powders. Since 2022, the DEA has found other types of nitazenes in both powder and blue tablet forms.

Nitazenes are also mixed with other street drugs such as heroin and fentanyl and with fake oxycodone pills, without users knowing it.

The Justice Department has indicted several companies in China, alleging that they ship the raw chemicals to make nitazenes to Mexico and the U.S., where they get mixed by cartels and traffickers, then distributed on the streets.

The toxic effects of nitazene resemble those associated with other classic opioids such as morphine and fentanyl and include small pupils and slowing of the respiratory and central nervous systems, which can lead to death…