Three deaths in the London borough of Camden within 10 days in November have been linked to a new synthetic opioid called cychlorphine, which is between 50 and 200 times stronger than heroin.

Questions have been raised over delays in local drug and alcohol services being told about the risk posed by cychlorphine, with frontline workers in neighbouring boroughs alerted about a police seizure days earlier.

Big Issue has also learned that police seized a supply of cychlorphine in Camden before 12 November, alongside another confiscation elsewhere in the capital.

“People are dying in Camden needlessly due to lack of information,” said Jon Glackin, co-ordinator of grassroots homelessness support organisation Streets Kitchen .

“We are shocked that, with so many needless deaths, there has b

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