All 14 Manchester City players are still in contention to win the World Cup with the group stage now in the book.
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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.
But many users continue to take pregabalin alongside heroin and experts say that hugely increases the risk of overdose. Deaths linked to pregabalin use are thought to be 'significantly under reported', but in 2021, the latest figures available, the drug was linked to 409 fatalities in England and Wales and 60 in the North West alone. That's up from just one a decade earlier, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
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Prof Rob Ralphs, a lecturer in criminology and social policy at Manchester Metropolitan University and one of the authors of the GM Trends report, said: "A lot of people moved to using pregabs and benzos during covid because the quality of heroin had gone down. Now it's just become part and parcel of their drug use.
"They like the effect, the buzz it gives, and it's cheap and readily available. But the risk is of overdose is increased because the heroin now is purer.
"[Using pregabs and benzos] increases people's risk of
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