SCIENCE GONE MAD โ
Sept. 6, 2023 – WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (CBS) โ The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education in Willow Grove, PA. was the first in the world to identify a new synthetic opioid that researchers say is more potent than fentanyl.
A researcher opened a safe they said contained a dangerous drug.
โSo, this is a powder that we received from Ohio,โ lab associate director Alex Krotulski said. โThat contained N-Pyrrolidino protonitazene.โ
Also called a โnitazene analogโ or โzeneโ for short. This is a synthetic opioid. The center found the drug autopsy samples taken nationwide.
โWe do know that it is responsible for the majority of those deaths,โ Krotulski said.ย
