SHOT: a deadly batch of methadone could have reached Moscow

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Could get to Moscow and the Moscow region a deadly batch of methadone, which has already poisoned more than 20 people from Astrakhan. According to the channel, a 24-year-old guy was hospitalized with methadone poisoning in a capital clinic. And before that, it was reported that a two-year-old girl had been poisoned.

According to the channel, the victim Evgeniy is a drug addict and has been using for quite some time. He was hospitalized unconscious from an apartment in the business-class residential complex «Liner Vostok» on Khodynsky Boulevard last Saturday. It is known that this apartment is rented by a 20-year-old girl whom the victim met at a club. The police are working with her.

Before this, it was reported that a two-year-old girl was poisoned with the drug in Krasnogorsk near Moscow.

Previously, a wave of methadone poisonings swept across Astrakhan. Three deaths are known. Suspects of drug distribution were detained; they tried to escape to Stavropol.