Fentanyl in heroin doses. The alarm starts from Perugia and extends to all of Italy. And it triggers the national prevention plan. The dose in question emerged from a random check by the Street Unit of the Umbrian capital. A ‘record’ at a national level which projects Umbria, once again, at the center of the galaxy of narcotic substances. A role that the region has played, dramatically, for years. And which this further discovery seems to renew, due, we can hypothesize, to an ever thriving market which also extends to neighboring regions, establishing itself as one of the most flourishing in Central Italy.
The confirmation of the identification of the opioid drug, very powerful than methadone and heroin which, in the dose examined, served to cut the drug, comes from the Prime Minister’s Office. “The National Rapid Alert System for Drugs (News-D), coordinated by the Department for Anti-Drug Policies (Dpa), has issued an alert for the presence of Fentanyl found, through checks carried out by the ISS, as a cutting substance in a dose of heroin seized a few weeks ago in Perugia. It is the first time this has been ascertained in Italy.” “In collaboration with the Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Alfredo Mantovano, the national prevention plan against the improper use of Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids has been activated which provides for the sending of an alert to all law enforcement agencies police and all the competent administrations to strengthen the territorial monitoring network and increase attention in all potentially exposed sectors”, continues the note. The National Rapid Alert System for Drugs, established in 2009, operates thanks to the collaboration of the Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services, a network of scientific police and clinical-forensic toxicology laboratories. The prosecutor of Perugia, Raffaele Cantone: “I am worried about what is emerging in these hours and I want to try to understand if it is a sporadic fact or if there are similar episodes”. And in addition to the heroin laced with Fentanyl, again in Umbria, in Terni, at the beginning of April a potentially lethal ‘super’ hashish was seized, according to investigators, with a purity level of 95%.
