Man, Nicola and Chrzanowska, Agata and Sutherland, Rachel and Sadaphale, Vandit and Barratt, Monica J and Bruno, Raimondo and Peacock, Amy (2025) Availability of nitazenes for purchase in Australia and internationally via cryptomarkets, September 2021 - August 2025. UNSW Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.
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Nitazenes are a class of highly potent synthetic opioids originally developed in the 1950s but never approved for medical use due to safety concerns. In recent years, illicit production and associated health harms have increased globally, including in Australia, where nitazene detections and related incidents are rising.
Drug Trends has identified, crawled (or ‘scraped’), extracted, categorised and analysed drug listings on cryptomarkets on a regular basis since 1st February 2014. This bulletin extends on our previous monitoring of nitazene availability on cryptomarkets, aiming to describe listing trends and identify the most frequently listed compounds from September 2021 to August 2025.
B Substances > New (novel) psychoactive substances > Synthetic opioids > Benzimidazole, Nitazenes, Brorphine
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Marketing and public relations (advertising) > Internet retailing (online sales / dark web)
VA Geographic area > Australia and Oceania > Australia
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