Now that Narcan is everywhere....
A tranquilizer used to sedate horses, cattle, and other animals is making its way into the illicit drug market, secretly added to heroin and cocaine by dealers trying to stretch their profits, authorities say.
But unlike another powerful drug that dealers use to cut narcotics, fentanyl, xylazine is not an opioid, and its effects cannot be reversed by administering Narcan....
Is it a big deal?
As of Monday, the [Chicago Medical Examiner] had confirmed 47 xylazine deaths in 2023, a number that will rise as test results come back.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said recently.
That's in Chicago.
About a month and it'll be here.
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