UNODC. February 2026 - Increasing nitazene and orphine analogues (synthetic opioids) and the implications for the use of test strips VIENNA, Austria – 25 February 2026: Nitazenes are a class of potent synthetic opioids comprising multiple structura…

A Scoping Review of the Emergence of Novel Synthetic Opioids in Australian Drug Markets: What Does This Mean for Harm Reduction Responses?  Mammoliti E, Nielsen S, Roxburgh A.  Drug Alcohol Rev. 2026 Jan;45(1):e14079. doi: 10.1111/d…

Temporal and geographical patterns of nitazene detections in drug samples and biospecimens in the United States, 2019–2024.  Zhu DT, Fitzgerald ND, Palamar JJ, Krotulski AJ.  Addiction. 2026. doi.org/10.1111/add.70378…

USA. 'Susceptible to overdose or death': Deadly new drug shows up on Tri-State streets A potent new synthetic opioid is showing up in the Tri-State drug supply, alarming local addiction-response leaders who say the biggest danger is that users ofte…

Brorphine Synthetic opioid with a piperidine benzimidazolone structure National Library of medicine, USA, aufgerufen am 15.02.2026 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Brorphine

Emerging analogues of brorphine  VIENNA, Austria – 30 May 2025: Brorphine is a potent synthetic opioid first reported to the UNODC Early Warning Advisory on NPS in 2019.[1] Since then, it was increasingly detected in seized drug samples and to…