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Growing Use Of Xylazine As An Adulterant In Opioids And Its Effects, Oluwapelumi Oluwo
Growing Use Of Xylazine As An Adulterant In Opioids And Its Effects, Oluwapelumi Oluwo
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Xylazine, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a non-opioid tranquilizer used in veterinary medicine. Although this drug has not been approved for human use, it can be linked to an increase in opioid overdose deaths due to its role as an adulterant in drugs like fentanyl.
Xylazine was detected in drugs involved in 41% of all opioid-involved unintentional deaths and in 44% of all unintentional overdose deaths with fentanyl involved in the year of 2021 in Philadelphia.