Designer drug Fentanyl linked to 60 UK deaths

THE Home Secretary has vowed to tackle the scourge of a deadly new drug, Fentanyl, with figures revealing a link to at least 60 deaths in the UK since December.

Amber Rudd said the Government’s new drug strategy would address the worrying spread of the synthetic opioid, which can be 10,000 times stronger than heroin.

The drug, which was blamed for the death of singer Prince in the US, has been growing in popularity in Britain where it is sold on the so-called Dark Web.

Scores of heroin users are thought to have accidentally overdosed on the drug in recent months and there are fears that more young people could lose their lives by taking the drug without realising its potency.

In the US more than 50,000 people died taking the drug in one year alone. Now police have discovered Fentanyl factories in the UK.