Cannabis vapes in Australia containing opioids spark calls for better access to anti-overdose drugs

A teenager died and a young man was left struggling to breathe after vaping synthetic opioids, as doctors warn the potentially deadly drugs are contaminating a growing range of recreational substances.

The patients overdosed after vaping THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis, mixed with protonitazene, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than heroin.

Medical experts who treated the patients reported on the cases in

in the journal Clinical Toxicology, calling for…