🚨 RED DRUG ALERT – Cambridge City🚨
📅 Date: 3rd March 2025
📍 Location of Incident: Cambridge City
⚠️ Drug of Concern: Heroin
🚨 Identified Risk: Higher risk of overdose & drug-related mortality
📢 Source of Information: Ambulance, Constabulary, CGL Treatment Service
🔔 Alert Instigated by: Cambridgeshire Public Health Team
🔴 Important Information
We have been made aware of an unusually high number of opioid overdoses in Cambridge City over the past 7-10 days. In addition, there have been two potential drug-related deaths in the last five days. These incidents are likely connected to heroin use.
Local users have raised concerns that the heroin supply may be adulterated.
🚨 We urge all local users to take extra precautions:
✅ Carry at least two naloxone kits
✅ Use nitazene testing strips
✅ Look after each other
⚠️ Harm Reduction Advice
- ❌ Never use alone – Always have someone with you.
- 💉 Go low and slow – Take less than usual and wait before taking more.
- 🚬 Smoke rather than inject to reduce risk.
- 👀 Look after your friends – Watch for signs of overdose:
- Loss of consciousness/unresponsiveness
- Shallow or absent breathing
- Blue lips/fingertips
- 🆘 Have a naloxone kit ready – It saves lives. If the heroin is contaminated with synthetic opioids, you may need multiple doses.
- 🚫 Avoid mixing with other depressants – DO NOT use heroin with:
- Alcohol
- Pregabalin/gabapentin
- Other opioids
These substances increase the risk of respiratory arrest.
- 📞 Be ready to call for help – Immediate medical intervention could save a life.
📢 Reporting & Support
We encourage the sharing of information between services and peers.
Please report any drug concerns as soon as possible:
🔗 Report here
If you or someone you know feels unwell after using heroin, call an ambulance immediately.
🆓 Get Free Naloxone Kits
Naloxone is available for free through CGL services:
📞 Cambridgeshire CGL: 0300 555 01 01
📞 Peterborough CGL Aspire: 01733 895 624
Thank you for helping to prevent further harm or fatalities.
For further queries, contact:
📧 Susie Talbot – Susie.talbot@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
📧 Joe Keegan – Joseph.keegan2@peterborough.gov.uk