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Call 112 now⚠️ Warning still current (Trimbos, April 2026): counterfeit oxycodone containing nitazenes is still circulating.
Read the warning →With counterfeit cigarettes you get worse tobacco. With counterfeit oxycodone you get something nobody can identify. The same trade logic, the same margin, but a product where that logic turns lethal. This page explains why, and why you only notice when it is too late to do anything.
Real oxycodone has to leak out of the legal supply chain and is therefore scarce and expensive. A pressed pill costs a fraction and sells for the same price. That is the whole explanation. No conspiracy, just margin.
What sets oxycodone apart from other counterfeits: you only find out hours later. With most products you know within minutes that it was nothing and you can complain. Here the effect builds slowly, one pill tells you nothing, and by the time you are certain it was fake, the number is unreachable and the courier has gone.
In conversations with people who trade in this, the same reasoning keeps coming back. They see no essential difference between counterfeit cigarettes and counterfeit medication: the real price has gone through the roof, the customer can no longer afford it, so you offer something cheaper that looks the same. To them that is not a moral question but a market question.
| Counterfeit cigarettes | Counterfeit oxycodone | |
|---|---|---|
| Reason to counterfeit | Real price became too high | Real price became too high |
| Margin for the seller | High | Higher, because the product is smaller and worth more per gram |
| When the buyer notices | Immediately, on the first drag | Hours later, or only after a second pill |
| Consequence for the buyer | Bad smoke, wasted money | Withdrawal, or a dose that is too strong |
| Chance the seller is confronted | Real | Small: contact has already been broken |
With almost any other counterfeit product there is a correction mechanism: the buyer notices, complains, does not come back, warns others. With oxycodone that mechanism does not work. The delayed onset means counterfeiting is rarely punished.
There is no feedback loop. The only person who notices quickly is the one who takes too much.
Years of conversations keep producing the same distinction. It is not a distinction between nice and nasty, or between professional and amateur. It is a difference in background, and from the outside it is invisible.
Someone who always has exactly what you name does not have stock but a script. Real stock is limited and coincidental: sometimes there is something, sometimes not, sometimes something other than what you were looking for. Whoever says yes to every question is selling your own expectation back to you.
The same goes for product knowledge. Someone who does not know that the retard version is the slow-release one is selling something they know nothing about. That says nothing about the pill in their hand, but it does say how much they can tell you about it.
Loose pills in a bag feel unreliable. A sealed box with a package leaflet feels safe. That difference in feeling is real, and that is exactly why it is used.
Boxes, blisters, leaflets and stickers can all be produced. The higher the price being asked, the more it pays to invest in that. So it is not true that counterfeits always look shoddy; with the more expensive fakes the opposite holds.
The same photo of a stock is sent to dozens of people. Ask for a fresh photo with something specific in it and it does not come; instead the conversation shifts to pressure: order now, almost sold out, someone else is waiting. That shift from proof to hurry is itself the signal.
Every feature that counts as trustworthy gets copied as soon as enough people look for it. That is exactly what happened with packaging. No feature holds up, because the market adapts to whatever buyers check. The only pill whose contents you know comes from a pharmacy.
What is written above comes from years of conversations with people who trade in this circuit, and from personal experience. Those are observations, not research. They are here because they explain what the figures do not: why this happens. Below is what has been formally established.
Dealers themselves quote high percentages of counterfeit and are almost certainly exaggerating. There is also no official percentage: at the Drugs Information and Monitoring System, counterfeit oxycodone falls into a residual category too small to break out separately.
What comes back consistently across many conversations is therefore not a number, but the logic: counterfeiting pays more, is rarely punished, and the price rises of recent years make it more attractive.
The Netherlands Forensic Institute has investigated six deaths and four severe poisonings linked to a nitazene since late 2024. NFI toxicologist Kristof Maudens in November 2025: "In almost all cases the nitazene was found in counterfeit oxycodone tablets."
The NFI calls that a lower bound itself, because it has no view of testing done elsewhere. The NFI also reported finding 1,007 tablets containing protonitazene in 2024 that looked like oxycodone.
That is the argument of this page in official figures: people paid for oxycodone, something completely different was delivered, and that difference cost lives.
The full Red Alert timeline →There is no reliable percentage, not even officially: at the Drugs Information and Monitoring System, counterfeit oxycodone falls into a residual category too small to break out. What is established is the outcome: since late 2024 the NFI has investigated six deaths and four severe poisonings linked to a nitazene, in almost all cases via counterfeit oxycodone. The point is not the percentage. The point is that you never know beforehand.
Because real oxycodone has to leak out of the legal chain and is therefore scarce and expensive. A pressed pill costs a fraction and sells for the same price. With oxycodone something else comes on top that does not apply to other substances: the buyer only notices hours later that there was nothing in it, and by then contact has been broken.
No. Boxes, blisters and leaflets are copied, and with more expensive counterfeits that is done convincingly. A sealed box feels more trustworthy than loose pills in a bag, and that is precisely why it is used to reassure you. Packaging is a sales technique, not proof.
With a placebo or an underdose the effect fails to arrive and you go into withdrawal while believing you took your medication. That is confusing and dangerous, because people then take more. With counterfeits containing synthetic opioids such as nitazenes the opposite risk is greater: then a pill is far too strong and a single dose can be fatal.
Because the seller then stays out of range. The person at the door is usually not the one getting your money, and is often young. If someone gets angry because the pills are fake, the courier faces that anger and not the dealer. For you it means you never speak to the person deceiving you.
Not because you are doing something wrong, but because the market you have ended up in does not work in your favour. The help page lists who you can call today.