Florida’s attorney general has issued an emergency order making it a felony for an individual to possess, sell, manufacture, or deliver eight drugs in the class called nitazenes.
The move by the state’s top law enforcement officer is a response to the increased appearance of these synthetic drugs, including one that is up 20 times deadlier than fentanyl.
Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, cause 66 percent of annual overdose deaths nationwide, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
The drug family of opioids includes the prescription painkillers hydrocodone and oxycodone, and the illegal drug heroin.
There’s no approved medicinal use for nitazenes.
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