Kobret is a low-grade form of

heroin Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the Opium, dried latex of the Papaver somniferum, opium poppy; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its eupho ...

, notable for its use in

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and its sale by criminal organizations in the area. In

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, a neighborhood of

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, the drug is sold by the criminal organization

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. In the large open-air drug market within Scampia, Kobret is sold along with

cocaine Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid and central nervous system stimulant, derived primarily from the leaves of two South American coca plants, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense, E. novogranatense'', which are cultivated a ...

, crack,

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and heroin. The drug is common along with heroin and cocaine along the Viale della Resistenza.

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