A potentially deadly prescription drug which exploded in popularity during lockdown when heroin was scarce and of poor quality is now 'part and parcel' of Manchester's drug scene.
Pregabalin, which has been linked to hundreds of deaths over the last few years, is still being widely used across the city, primarily among homeless people and drug addicts, a report has found.
Users often take 'pregabs', as they're known, alongside heroin or crack to bolster the effects of the drugs, or to combat withdrawal symptoms.
Heroin now appears to have largely returned to its pre-pandemic levels of purity, the annual Greater Manchester Testing and Research on Emergent and New Drugs report found.
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