​Synthetic opioids are being advertised on SoundCloud, investigation finds

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A new investigation by the BBC has found almost 3,000 advertisements for strong synthetic opioids on the music streaming platform SoundCloud.

Some of the advertisements, which have since been removed from the site, date back as far as a year. SoundCloud has responded to the discovery, saying it was a victim of “bad actors”.

The posts advertised nitazenes, which are more deadly than heroin and have been linked to nearly three UK deaths a week on average, according to the…