Fentanyl, police will be assigned Naloxone spray which blocks its effects

He was found in a dose of heroin in Perugia. In an illegal pharmacy in Gioia Tauro. In the availability of a trafficker arrested in Piacenza last November. In 2023 in four bodies subjected to autopsies: only one as the main cause of death. Limited tracks for now. Of apparently modest importance when compared […]

He was found in a dose of heroin in Perugia. In an illegal pharmacy in Gioia Tauro. In the availability of a trafficker arrested in Piacenza last November. In 2023 in four bodies subjected to autopsy: in only one as the main cause of death. Limited tracks for now. Of apparently modest importance if we compare the situation in Italy with that of the United States, where fentanyl is a real social plague that caused more than 70 thousand deaths last year. After the presentation of the prevention plan, the government took another step forward: the police officers who intervene on this front are being assigned Naloxone spraya drug that blocks the effects of fentanyl.

The Italian presidency of the G7 has promoted a joint declaration on the fight against the powerful analgesic. A focus was dedicated in the meeting of the 7 Foreign Ministers and in that of Justice. “We have established – informed Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani – an operational collaboration against production and diffusion. We are also working with the USA, there have been more than one meeting with Blinken who thanks Italy for its commitment. And the topic will be at the center of my meetings with Asian countries“. On the internal front, a national prevention plan is active which involves all the administrations involved.

The dark web, in particular, is the gateway to Fentanyl in Italy. The traffic, explained the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister Alfredo Mantovano, passes “above all on Chinese sites, with cryptocurrency payments which means non-traceability and this makes investigations difficult and complex.”

The National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office, continued the undersecretary, “has established a working group composed of some district attorneys to develop intervention protocols. All prosecutors’ offices have been made aware, even the ordinary ones.” And given that the substance is starting to circulate, he said, “the Ministry of the Interior and Health are working to provide the police force personnel who work in this area with bottles of Naloxone, a nasal spray that acts as an antidote, to ensure that when an officer carries out an intervention that brings out fentanyl they are not affected.”