Is a new opioid crisis about to devastate the UK?

When the Afghan Taliban ceased production of heroin, global supplies were depleted, with new, powerful synthetic opioids flooding in to fill the vacuum.
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With very little on-the-spot testing available in the UK, experts are concerned about how to keep drug users safe from harm. The Guardian visited Copenhagen to see how the Danish approach to problematic drug use differs from the UK and asks, with a new safe injection room set to open in Glasgow this summer, whether we might have something to learn from our continental neighbours

Chapters:
00:00 - The Taliban's crackdown on heroin production and the rise of synthetic opioids
01:02 - A charity in one of London's worst hit areas for problematic drug use
02:06 - Street outreach work in Tower Hamlets: how has the drug supply changed?
04:08 - How does the UK deal with drug use and policing?
04:44 - A tour of Denmark's drugs fixing room as the UK prepares to open it's first consumption room
08:31 - How Copenhagen's police treat drug users differently
10:30 - How to deal with an opioid overdose

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