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Joseph Janes, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University

REVEALED: More than one in three illicit drug samples contain unexpected substances testing finds | Vintage Vibes

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When someone buys a drug illegally, they cannot be sure exactly what is in it.

More than one in three samples submitted to the Welsh Emerging Drug Identification Service (Wedinos) where the buyer had said what substance they believed they had purchased, contained something other than what they expected. Between April 2025 and March 2026, 36.6% of samples submitted to Wedinos did not contain the expected substance.

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