The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Abuse warns that new benzodiazepines a appearing on the black market. 30 new molecules (25 of them were first detected between 2014 and 2020) are causing apprehension. At this point, the market is dominated by etiazolam and flualprazolam but this situation could change because repressive measures on those substances have been enacted by many countries. In 2019, 1240 seizures of new benzodiazepines have been carried out in Europe. Early on, these drugs were sold as research chemicals, mainly under the names Phenazepam or Pyralolam. But increasingly they are sold as fake Valium or Xanax, common benzodiazepines. Those 30 new benzodiazepines are imported from China as powder and fabricated in pill form in Europe. France has an interesting law on the books prohibiting new illicit drugs that belong to a family of controlled substances. One impact of Covid-19 could be that more people would be tempted to auto-medicate with benzodiazepines. For more information on legal benzodiazepines, read my article on this blog on june 24, 2008. To learn more about life after being caught dealing with controlled substances, go to www.lacloture.ca (it is in french)
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