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National Patient Safety Alert – potent synthetic opioids

Posted on 27th July 2023 by Victoria Morton

We have been sent a National Patient Safety Alert in respect of an elevated number of overdoses (with some deaths) in people who use drugs, primarily heroin, in many parts of the country. Testing in some of these cases has...Read More

RED DRUG ALERT

Posted on 10th July 2023 by Victoria Morton

Date: 10th July, 2023 Location of Incident: Peterborough Drug of concern: Heroin Identified risk: High risk of overdose. Source of information: Public Health Alert instigated by: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Public Health We have been made aware of a number of...Read More

Red Drug Alert Briefing

Posted on 30th June 202330th June 2023 by Victoria Morton

The National OHID drug alerts team has decided to send out the briefing below in response to recent incidents reported nationally. We have not yet identified ‘Nitazenes’ in our local heroin supply across Cambridgeshire/Peterborough but we want to draw your...Read More