Highly toxic synthetic opioid ‘Pyro’ which is 1,000 times more powerful than morphine and more potent than fentanyl is discovered at the scene of two deaths in Essex
A synthetic opioid 1,000 times more powerful than morphine has been discovered at the scene of two deaths in Essex.
Police investigating the deaths of a man and a woman in their 40s in Basildon issued a warning after officers identified the presence of etonitazene.
Known by its street name Pyro, it can be more potent than fentanyl, another deadly opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin.
Last year, three young men died within three months of each other after taking the new ‘designer drug’ sweeping the dark web.
Students Dylan Byfield-Levell, 20, Jakob Wozniak, 19, and entrepreneur Miles Davis, 27, died after taking the opioid N-pyrrolidino etonitazene in Birmingham.
The deaths all took place between last October and January in 2022.
