pharaoh
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Up until the Taliban retook Afghanistan (or rather, took even more than they had before the imperialist invasion - almost the whole country), heroin was fairly reliable and had a consistent standard of quality (not great but it was mostly just heroin and the usual bash/cuts) in many parts of the UK. Since the Taliban officially banned opium cultivation and processing/production, they apparently did wipe out most opium production, if you believe the western sources anyway. Alongside this we have started to see xylazine and nitazenes turn up in heroin. I read on a harm reduction website that the Taliban's decision to prohibit cultivation has contributed to this which I am sure is true to some degree, even though there is shit loads of opium and heroin stored and stashed along those old routes. It's as much to do with greedy opportunism on behalf of suppliers and dealers though at various points on the supply chain.
A multitude of factors but one certain outcome: the net quality of heroin has declined in the UK and it has become far more dangerous due to the emergence of nitazenes and especially xylazine, the latter due to naloxone being useless in the case of an OD should the xylazine being what actually sent a person into a OD as it isn't a opioid. On wedinos.org, samples of heroin containing xylazine show xylazine being thr primary active component.
A multitude of factors but one certain outcome: the net quality of heroin has declined in the UK and it has become far more dangerous due to the emergence of nitazenes and especially xylazine, the latter due to naloxone being useless in the case of an OD should the xylazine being what actually sent a person into a OD as it isn't a opioid. On wedinos.org, samples of heroin containing xylazine show xylazine being thr primary active component.
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