‘Zombie’ drug of horse tranquilizer-laced fentanyl ravages US and alarms health officials

EXCLUSIVE — Officials in public health are losing the battle to save lives of those who have taken a lethal dose from an extremely new drug. drug concoction to put users in a zombielike condition of consciousness.

As fentanylLast year saw an unprecedented rise in opiate-related deaths across America. The Biden administration promised drastic action to end the current opioid epidemic that is spreading throughout the country.

Fentanyl combined with the horse tranquilizers xylazine and fentanyl could upend U.S. government attempts to end the epidemic of opioids. This is because Narcan, the emergency overdose medicine for Narcan, will not allow it to succumb.

“We need to take it very seriously,” Nora Volkow (director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse) said the following: National Institutes of HealthDuring an interview with the Washington Examiner. “The more we find these drug combinations, the more challenging it is clinically on the one hand to reverse overdoses, to treat the opioid use disorder, and also to treat all the complications that are emerging.”

Volkow describes the deadly drug combination as “a lethal drug combination.” “tsunami reaction,” It is spreading rapidly across the country, unbeknownst of many drug users, and can’t be detected using individual strips. Dr. Susan Sherman at Johns Hopkins University studies Baltimore residents who have used fentanyl.

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Washington D.C. has seen fatal overdoses of xylazine-laced Fentanyl. 36 states. NIDA researchPennsylvania is the state with the highest number of overdose deaths due to xylazine. In the five-year period, 26% to 26% of all overdose deaths were due to drug overdoses. This is compared with 19% in Maryland, and 10% in Connecticut for drug overdose fatalities.

Philadelphia has been documenting the use of xylazine for many years. “tranq,” in toxicology reports or drug samples. To 2021 more than 90% One-third of all city dope samples that were tested in a laboratory contained tranquilizer.

A letter was sent from the Drug Enforcement Administration to intelligence report Concerning the rising number of xylazine-related overdose deaths, Over the 2-year period between 2020 and 2021 the Northeast of the United States had the greatest number of overdoses. South followed. In October, the report stated that xylazine overdoses will increase. “be commonly encountered in the illicit fentanyl supply.”

You may experience a longer opioid high or euphoria by taking xylazine. Combine xylazine and fentanyl may cause more harm than if taken by itself. Volkow says that fentanyl can slow down breathing, while xylazine lowers blood pressure.

People who use xylazine or fentanyl by injecting, snorting and swallowing it can suffer from unique physical symptoms. This is why the FDA has made it a priority to investigate these cases. “zombie” name. Blood vessels constrict when Xylazine is administered, restricting blood flow. The skin can develop lesions around the injection site as well as throughout the body if there is not enough blood flow. Skin stretching and disintegration can result in limb loss.

Volkow insisted that people using this combination drug shouldn’t be viewed as apostalyptic or sanitized. “frightening people.”

“We really need to fight that stigmatizing language,” Volkow claimed. “They are already very much discriminated, and we need to do everything we can to actually be respectful to them. That is crucial in order to bring them forward … to seek treatment or be part of our society.”

Sherman discovered that drug addicts can be fueled by isolation.

“Someone actually said … fentanyl felt like a warm hug,” Sherman stated. “And you know, that’s so profound because we all want hugs.”

Naloxone is also known as Narcan. It is an antidote to opioid overdoses. But xylazine does not contain opioids. The emergency medicine stops the effects from fentanyl but not the tranquilizer. Overdoses are more likely to result in fatalities.

“You’re combining two very different mechanisms of action,” Volkow spoke of tranquilizing and opioid effects. “create a tsunami reaction.”

“They come together and escalate the severity of the dangers,” Sie said.

According to the DEA, illicit xylazine has been entering the United States through online sales from Chinese suppliers. Sherman and Volkow were not sure at what point xylazine was being added to Fentanyl. Volkow thought it was taking place in the U.S.A, and not at the U.S. border. Until this point, fentanyl itself had largely been used to fill fake prescription drugs like Percocet or Xanax.

It Food and Drug Administration The FDA has approved xylazine only as a sedative to large animals such as horses or deer. It is a medicine veterinarians can use and it isn’t a controlled substance. This has made it more accessible to Americans.

The FDA is concerned about the growing use of xylazine as an illicit drug. moved In late February, the United States government imposed a ban on the importation of pharmaceuticals. This was done to ensure that the medication and its ingredients are sent to legal veterinary entities and manufacturing facilities as well as state-licensed compounding pharmacies.

“Restricting access to xylazine will make it harder for drug dealers to sell these products. And so it will be helpful, but it will not be sufficient,” Volkow stated. “We also need to be very proactive in terms of prevention and therapeutics because really, at the end of the day, where we need to expand is to educate people about the dangers of these drugs and also to encourage them to seek out treatment.”

Sherman hopes to see drug-checking tests for xylazine be validated rapidly so people can take drugs before they are used.

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Rebecca Kiessling was a mother to two of her sons who were killed by fentanyl overdose in 2020.

“Nobody’s demanding fentanyl,” Kiessling stated this in an interview with The Washington Examiner Early March “This is not what kids think they’re getting. It’s homicide and it’s a war.”