Taliban ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan opens a gap for fentanyl in Europe. European Drug Monitoring Center warns of the risk that a possible lack of global supply will be replaced with “more harmful synthetic opiates, such as fentanyl derivatives or nitazenes” Afghanistan produces 80% of the world's opium, according to the observatory.

“We have no indication that there are synthetic opiate in Spain, but we are all hysterically watching,” says the Government delegate for the National Plan on Drugs.