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University of Dundee experts have warned that testing strips routinely distributed by harm reduction services across the UK ...

Rose, 30, died last September following an accidental overdose of nitazenes, a drug thought to be around 20 times more powerful than fentanyl.

Public Health Scotland said nitazene-type opioids are increasingly being identified in hospital and post-mortem toxicology.