PSA: #Nitazenes are finding their way into #cocaine and other substances sold as #partydrugs all across the #UK - also #xylazine is turning up as an adulterant (its been reported in street #ketamine).
I'm also increasingly hearing of people from the #rave scene who don't normally take the harder stuff keeling over as they accidentally end up consuming these substances - #drugs #harmreduction
#Fentanyl, Stimulants, Hallucinogens and Other Substances
- Traci Green
- 111,000 OD Deaths
- 100 year problem
- Disparity: Younger, More stimulants, toll of life expectancy
- Unregulated drug supply toxic
- #Xylazine
- #1 Risk Factor for OD: Stigma
- Kaiser Survey
- https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths/
- 2/3 individual or family dealing with drug or alcohol #addiction
- 3 in 10 individual or family member associated with Opioid Addiction
- 1 in 10 individual or family member drug #iverdose
- https://www.health.com/americans-drug-addiction-overdose-poll-7724703
B.C. health-care workers seeing signs of flesh-eating drug
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/it-scares-me-b-c-health-care-workers-seeing-signs-of-flesh-eating-drug-1.6486838
Xylazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylazine
Downtown Eastside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
Kílala Lelum (Urban Indigenous Health & Healing Cooperative; https://kilalalelum.ca) aims to partner Indigenous Elders w. physicians & allied health professionals to provide physical, mental, emotional, & spiritual care to the community in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
#Vancouver #addiction #xylazine #PublicHealth #DTES #KilaLalelum
Caring for Downtown Eastside residents struggling with wounds aggravated by the toxic drug supply and poor sanitation is already hard enough, but some Vancouver health-care workers are worried the "flesh-eating drugz is already showing signs in the neighbourhood.
Xylazine-laced fentanyl is causing wounds and scrambling efforts to stop overdoses
#Law #LawFedi #SubstanceAbuse #DrugTreatment #Fentanyl #Xylazine #Crime #Rehab #drugs #wound #Triage
A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis. It's called xylazine (pronounced ZY'-lah-zeen). It's not intended for human use and can cause severe skin wounds in people who inject it. But whether it is leading to more deaths — as suggested by officials in Washington — is not yet clear. In fact, some early data suggests the drug may inadvertently be diluting the effects of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid behind most overdose deaths. But there is broad agreement that information is needed to understand xylazine’s impact and craft ways of disrupting illegal supplies.
Patreon文章<美國濫藥危機新問題：「喪屍藥」>: https://shorturl.at/gimP5
介紹一下美國濫藥問題的新趨勢。美國之前幾年主要討論「芬太尼」 #fentanyl ，近幾個月，美國開始討論一種新興藥物物質，名為「甲苯噻嗪」 #xylazine ，外號「鎮靜劑」 #tranq 或「喪屍藥」（zombie drug），使用甲笨噻嗪的個案上升，而且更致命。
「喪屍藥」是一種獸醫用的鎮靜劑，主要用來馬匹、牛隻等較大型動物，不可用於人類。吸毒用上「喪屍藥」，最早在2000年代初的波多黎各發現，過去一、兩年美國越來越多發現海洛英等毒品不只混入芬太尼，還混入「喪屍藥」，因為「喪屍藥」可以把興奮時間延長。
「喪屍藥」最大特點是「食肉」，人類攝入的話，可導致吸毒者皮膚潰爛流濃，如果不盡快醫治，皮膚下的細胞壞死，病人需要截肢。
在美國，「喪屍藥」初時主要在「新英格蘭」地區出現，費城為重災區。
毒販近年滲入「喪屍藥」，主要因素是盈利，因為中國供應商網上兜售「喪屍藥」藥粉，每公斤只賣大概6-20美元，遠較芬太尼和海洛英便宜。
#Yurok Tribe Declares Emergency in Response to Surge in #Fentanyl Overdoses
The Yurok Tribal Council issued an emergency declaration in response to the fentanyl and #xylazine crisis unfolding on and near the Yurok #Reservation.
“The Yurok Tribal Council is sounding the alarm and taking action to address this exigent risk to our community,” said Joseph, L. James, the Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “Too many of our families have lost loved ones to fentanyl. Now, we are seeing fentanyl mixed with xylazine, which is even more dangerous.” ...The Yurok Tribal Council...made it mandatory for all tribal government staff to be trained in the administration of #naloxone [and] has provided #Narcan nasal spray kits and training to 266 tribal staff and community members in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties over the last two years.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
The Conversation U.S.
Matt Willemsen
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