The Higher Health Institute
(ISS) on Wednesday issued a maximum alert over the April 2017
death in Milan of a 39-year-old man from an overdose of
synthetic heroin, the first such death in Italy.
It was the first time the molecule ocfentanyl, a potent
synthetic opioid structurally related to fentanyl, had been
found in Italy, the ISS said.
Previous deaths caused by the molecule cannot be ruled out,
and thr risk of others is high, the ISS told ANSA.
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