Police renew warning after another suspected drugs death

West Yorkshire Police have renewed their appeal to Class A drug users to use extra caution following another suspected drugs related death in the region.

Paramedics were called to Newstead Avenue in Fitzwilliam at 14:28 yesterday after a 43-year-old man was found unresponsive at the property.

He was taken by paramedics to Pinderfields Hospital for urgent medical treatment but died today.

A 43-year-old man has been arrested for supply of Class A drugs.

Drug users are being warned about the risk of deadly batches of heroin being circulated on the region’s streets.

Recent enquiries have led police to fear that dealers are deliberately contaminating Class A drugs with substances called Fentanyl and Carfentanyl - both massively more potent than street heroin.

Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than street heroin with Carfentanyl 100 times more potent than that. Fentanyl is an anaesthesia used to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedures. It has the same effects as morphine but is significantly more powerful. Carfentanyl is used on animals.

Yorkshire and Humber Regional Policing, the National Crime Agency and NHS England renewed their warning to drug users about the dangers last week.