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.
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
Natural selection 😜
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