The FDA is alerting healthcare professionals about the special management required for opioid overdoses tainted with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer known on the street as tranq, tranq dope, sleep-cut, Philly dope, and zombie drug.
But it is increasingly being found in illicit drug samples and in fatal overdoses.that from 2015 to 2020, the percentage of all drug overdose deaths involving xylazine increased from 2% to 26% in Pennsylvania. The tranquilizer was involved in 19% of all drug overdose deaths in Maryland in 2021 and 10% in Connecticut in 2020, said NIDA.was found in 28% of opioid samples tested state-wide in the first half of 2022.
Xylazine is not an opioid, but repeated exposures may lead to dependence and withdrawal, said the agency. Someone overdosing on xylazine may have symptoms similar to an opioid overdose, including central nervous system and respiratoryStructurally, xylazine is like levamisole,
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