In the state of Colorado, United States, they confirm the existence of a new drug that they estimate to be 10 times more potent and dangerous than fentanyl.
It is N-desethyl etonitazene and it is the first time that there is clear evidence of this drug in the USA.
The origin of this synthetic opioid, N-desethyl etonitazene, is located, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in China.
The confirmation of the drug occurred with the death of a person by overdose and the authorities of Boulder County, Colorado, sent the sample for investigation.
According to the portal Gestión Sanitaria Exprés, it was a man from the state of Colorado who unknowingly bought contaminated quaaludes through the dark web from the state of Colorado.
The consumer's intention was to obtain this hypnotic drug containing methaqualone, a central nervous system depressant that causes euphoria and drowsiness, a synthetic product widely consumed in the United States; however, since it contained traces of N-desethyl etonitazene, its potency was much greater and so were its effects.
The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE) issued the alert about the discovery of N-Desethyl Etonitazene on November 30, 2009, based on a sample that was taken from a sample that was found to contain N-Desethyl Etonitazene from a sample received the previous month by the Boulder County Coroner's Authority.
In its statement, it reported, “N-desethylethonitacene is a new synthetic opioid that has a structural resemblance to etonitacene, N-desethylethonitacene and other nitacene analogs (2- benzylbenzimidazole).”
CFSRE detailed N-desethylethonitacene is a metabolite of etonitacene; however, it was detected in the absence of etonitazene and is now sold as a drug on its own, as seen in sales on dark web sites.”
For the Center, “in vitro pharmacological data show that N desethyl etonitazene is a mu active opioid agonist with potency similar to that of etonitazene and is approximately 10 times more potent than fentanyl.”
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