Overview
- Police in Lower Franconia, which announced findings Monday, said the youths took an opiate-containing chemical and that investigators have traced its source.
- The compound is not covered by the German Narcotics Act, so possession and sharing are not punishable under that law.
- Officers said they carried out measures at the owner’s location and are keeping the exact name of the substance confidential for investigative reasons.
- In early March in Neustadt am Main, a mother found four people aged 14 to 19 unconscious in a house and crews resuscitated them and took them to hospitals.
- All four have fully recovered, and the case highlights how new synthetic drugs can fall outside control lists and complicate public health and policing.