'Inevitable' that synthetic heroin will flood Ireland, expert warns 

Unlike manufacturing heroin in a faraway country and smuggling it into Europe, synthetic opioids 'can be made anywhere', an expert warned.

A significant increase in dangerous synthetic versions of heroin being supplied by organised crime groups into Ireland and the rest of Europe is a “grim inevitability”, a drug expert in Britain has said.

Steve Rolles of Transform Drug Policy Foundation said the “cat is out of the bag” concerning the supply of synthetic opioids such as nitazene, and warned that the UK is already “looking down the barrel of an imminent public health emergency”.