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London — As authorities clamp down on fentanyl distribution and the amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan decreases under the Taliban, criminal enterprises have turned to a deadly alternative.

2-Benzyl Benzimidazole opioids, commonly known as nitazines, are a class of synthetic compound developed in the 1950s as painkillers, but which were never approved for use as medicines.

"Nitazenes pose a credible threat and… predicted changes in heroin availability in Europe could herald an increase in the use of synthetic opioids with possibly profound implications for public health," the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction wrote in a letter to the Lancet public health journal in February.

"We cannot assume that existing approaches to responding to opioid problems will be sufficient without adapting to the challenges posed by the appearance of a range of highly potent but pharmacologically diverse substances."

"Synthetic opioids are significantly more toxic than heroin and have led to thousands of deaths overseas," Britain's Crime and Policing Minister Chris Philp said in a statement.

Holland said the gap in the European heroin market created by the Taliban's crackdown on production in Afghanistan could lead to a boom in nitazenes across Europe.

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