Oklahoma narcotics agents are warning about powerful new synthetics hidden in street drugs — a single pill, a single hit, could be laced with something deadlier than fentanyl.

The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBNDD) says nitazenes and xylazine — cheap, potent and often undetectable — are now showing up in nearly every street drug, making the state’s overdose crisis even more unpredictable and deadly.

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“Almost every illicit drug, if you’re buying it on the street, it has been adulterated with these drugs,” OBNDD Director Donnie Anderson said.

Nitazenes, first developed in the 1950s but abandoned for medical use because they were considered too dangerous, can be up to 50

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