Mother's loss after son died from 'vape laced with opioid'

A mother has revealed her heart-wrenching loss after her son allegedly died from smoking a vape laced with an opioid.

Freddy Ireland-Rose, 30, died last September following an accidental overdose of nitazenes, a drug thought to be around 20 times more powerful than fentanyl.

He had been using a cannabis vape in a bid to withdraw from opiates and had been buying the liquid refills on the internet, an inquest in front of the Inner North London assistant coroner Sarah Bourke previously heard.

After being found unresponsive at home with the device in his hand, paramedics succeeded in rescuscitating him but he did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a few days later.

Now Ireland-Rose's mother has spoken out about her 'unimaginable' loss following the death of her son, as well as the potential reasons for his overdose, in an interview with the BBC.