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Police are informing astir what they're calling "dangerous counterfeit pharmaceutical substances." The precocious seized substances, which the RCMP accidental incorporate non-medicinal drugs, are being sold arsenic Xanax and Dilaudid. The substances were seized successful caller drugs overdose investigations.
Fake pills are presently successful circulation, according to police
Maddie Ryan · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 1:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago
Police are informing astir what they're calling "dangerous counterfeit pharmaceutical substances." The precocious seized substances, which the RCMP accidental incorporate non-medicinal drugs, are being sold arsenic Xanax and Dilaudid.
The counterfeit drugs were seized successful caller drugs overdose investigations. A property merchandise from the RCMP Thursday said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has confirmed "a number" of deaths from ingesting these substances, including youth.
The RCMP told CBC News that the root of the substances is inactive nether investigation, but "certainly purchasing these products from the achromatic marketplace online is possible."
Xanax — or benzodiazepine — is medically prescribed to dainty anxiousness disorders, but the precocious seized counterfeit was made of bromazolam, methamphetamine and MDMA. The merchandise said, "this operation tin pb to respiratory slump and coma."
The counterfeit Dilaudid was composed of protonitazine, an opoid 20 times much potent than fentanyl.
Real Dilaudid contains hydromorphone, and is commonly prescribed arsenic a painkiller.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said past period that fake Dilaudid was connected to a abrupt decease successful Newfoundland and Labrador.
Police are encouraging families to talk with their children astir the dangers of substance use, and are reminding the nationalist that naloxone kits are escaped of outgo and readily disposable crossed the province. Naloxone kits efficaciously and temporarily reverse opioid overdoses, but not overdoses caused by different substances.
Police promote anyone witnessing a imaginable cause overdose to telephone 911.
"Residents are reminded of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, which offers immoderate ineligible protections to those acquisition oregon witnesser a cause overdose death," the merchandise said.
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Maddie Ryan is simply a newsman and subordinate shaper moving with CBC News successful St. John's. She is simply a postgraduate of the CNA journalism program. Maddie tin beryllium reached astatine [email protected].
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