Heroin smuggled into UK mixed with drug 500 times stronger than morphine
Heroin smuggled into UK mixed with drug 500 times stronger than morphine
The contamination is thought to be behind a recent rise in drug poisonings and deaths in parts of the UK (Picture: Getty)
Heroin being smuggled into the UK from Afghanistan is being contaminated with a drug 500 times stronger than morphine, the National Crime Agency has revealed.
The NCA is targeting drug networks that mix isotonitazene into batches of heroin brought to Britain from…