Warning after 'fake' pill 1000 times stronger than morphine found in ACT

The discovery of a potentially deadly new opioid disguised as a painkiller has prompted a health warning in the ACT.

Cantest, the territory's Pill Testing service said that it had found the drug "N-pyrrolidino" inside a counterfeit oxycodone pill yesterday.

According to CanTEST, it is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and carries a significant risk of fatal overdose.CanTEST said the pill was acquired from an unregulated drug network on the dark web, but they did not disclose the name of the seller. "Any type of drug sourced from the unregulated market, including convincing-looking counterfeit pharmaceuticals, may contain nitazenes or other dangerous substances," the service said."N-pyrrolidino isotonitazene is known to cause an opioid-like overdose.

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