First came fentanyl. Now this state is counting the casualties from another deadly drug.
In West Virginia and elsewhere, dealers mix fentanyl with the powerful animal sedative xylazine. NBC News was able to arrange overseas purchases of the drug within minutes.
Dr. Steven Corder didn’t think his job treating people addicted to fentanyl in Wheeling, West Virginia, could get any harder, but then he began encountering patients who were addicted to both fentanyl and a second drug with its own destructive power — the livestock tranquilizer xylazine.
“Opioid withdrawal is hard enough,” Corder said. But his usual tools, he lamented, “couldn’t touch the withdrawal from xylazine.”
Xylazine is now present in one out of every nine overdose deaths nationwide involving illicit fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Saved you a click.
Nothing you said wasn’t in the summary in the post, no click necessary
The summary was empty when I first saw it.
Fair enough, we need more people like you that actually do read the damn article
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Downvoted for clickbait.
Right!
Why would anyone ever write "this state" instead of the state's name. It's just too click baity. Is "West Virginia" that hard to type?
First?????? Sure journalism degrees are worthless
Aka tranq. The effects can be seen by looking up videos of Kensington PA. It seems to have really taken a hold of that area. NSFL
Is it any good?
Tranq makes your skin rot. You eventually get necrotic tissue and have to amputate. It's really bad.
Is that similar to krokodile? I saw a doc earlier that showed people has severely necrotic limbs and kept injecting knowing full well they are rotting their appendages.
I think it's similarly bad. Though one bummer is that tranq is a horse tranquilizer. So if you OD on fent cut with tranq, narcan won't save you, since the tranq will be in effect. You will need two medicines, one of which is rare- and the person being well trained to realize that they are also ODing on tranq. It's a real lose-lose for everyone.
Dang that sucks
You are disgusting, clearly risk of death alone does not keep people from resorting to it, so no this is not the way it would end.
How naive, hateful, and small-minded can you be? They are people just like you.
How would this end the opioid crisis
Apparently the junkie could die. Stopping the demand part of supply and demand.
Yes. And absolutely NO ONE ELSE will ever become addicted to opiates ever again.
Do you think before you talk?
Do you?
You're responding to an obvious troll...
Oooh, a wild edgelord appears. Much wow. (Try not to suck your own dick in public, cupcake.)
This is unnatural selection. Poor and homeless people use drugs because they have no way to obtain basic necessities like housing, food, showers, jobs, etc. It's an effect of our economic disparity that is made worse by the rich. You might have a choice when it comes to using drugs, but the world is very different when people don't have the same privileges as you.
enjoy having voted for biden (:
For your sake and everyone else's, please grow up.
There are many old people already, don't you think?
We are both Americans. Doesn't matter which plutocrat you voted for. We all lose when you automatically categorize everyone you don't agree with as being on the "enemy" team.
Hahaha fortunately I'm not