612 - The Xylazine Crisis

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Xylazine is an animal tranquilizer that is showing up in illicit opioid supplies. In addition to contributing to the risk of overdose, xylazine causes horrific, necrotizing wounds when injected, smoked, or snorted. Lindsay Smith Rogers talks to two clinicians on the front lines of the overdose epidemic about their experiences with xylazine and their views on what this latest development means for the future: Rachel McFadden, a Bloomberg Fellow at the School of Public Health and a wound care nurse in the Emergency Department at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Dr. Matthew Salzman, also a Fellow and assistant professor of medicine at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. Xylazine: The New Overdose Crisis | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

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@shallahcat 5 ай бұрын

I am beginning to see this in our area in Ontario. Tragedy on top of tragedy.

@nicolehines4418 11 ай бұрын

As an individual what can we do to start pushing change in our town or community? What office or state representative should we be contacting?

@gerirodgers2 6 ай бұрын

Informative. Thank you so much.

@MichaelTPowers-gl8cv 3 ай бұрын

What about Methamphetamine? If a person only uses merh intranasal and ends up in the hospital because of a red line infection travelling from right bicep towards the armpit?

@zekec6088 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. I am somebody with no professional healthcare experience, watching people in my community struggle with addiction and all that comes with it. I have one friend who almist died recently from a blood infection due to a xylazine-caused wound. Months previously, one of my neighbors died f a blood infection after relapsing following the death of her partner, who had been sober (except weed) with her for many years. I am tired of nobody in my community, even the most progressive folks, seem to think about mitigating harm to people dealing with lack of housing plus substance use disorder, and savoin g their lives. I am thinking about a career in public health, but also wondering what I can do right here, right now. I have an idea of raising funds in order to pay for wound care kits to distribute in the community, but I'm not sure what they should entail.

@user-ct4ih9rd3k 5 ай бұрын

Your dead right no real help is offered. As a matter of fact, quite the opposite! It is often encouraged by the powers that be.. in attempt to gather all such users into one space. Eventually driving out the locals in such areas, resulting in a huge land grab followed by gentrification. With untold damage done to local populations along the way. They are truly weaponizing drugs against already struggling communities. This is no accident and a worldwide phenomenon.

@user-ct4ih9rd3k 5 ай бұрын

It is fantastic to see so many people asking what can they do to help. I hope you get the opportunity to make a difference in your community god knows we need more people to stand up and do all we can to change this world. Best of luck with all your future endeavours

@robmann400 Жыл бұрын

A health problem, a policing problem, a legislative problem, but not really. Xylazine and fentanyl are an economic problem. When something is made illegal, something with high demand, it creates an economic opportunity for entrepreneurs which is a French word meaning “amoral criminal; conman.” These entrepreneurs will always try to maximize profit margins anyway they can, if people die, people die, you can’t worry about that and succeed in the black market. Look no further than prohibition. Do you have a lot of people showing up at the hospitals and the morgues because of problems with the bathtub gin supply? No one makes bathtub gin anymore. It’s not profitable. There’s no demand for it because it’s readily available in a much safer form. If heroin had remained legal and the supply regulated, inexpensive, and taxed, the drug users would be a lot safer and help with addiction would be a lot easier to get. Markets can be regulated. Black markets can only be made irrelevant.

@Patrick_Ross 11 ай бұрын

The French translation of “entrepreneur” has no such meanings.😂

@robmann400 11 ай бұрын

Thank you. Here’s another word you can help me with, ‘facetious.’

@zland919 10 ай бұрын

Xylazine isn't illegal

@user-ct4ih9rd3k 5 ай бұрын

The problem is it's the very people charged with helping the problem who are funding and creating these issues to serve their own pockets and purposes. If you're ever unsure just follow the money right back to the main supply. If heroin had been legalised it wouldn't serve their black market... so instead they are funding homelessness on a massive scale. The Wuhan institute is also supplying the world's xylazine which I find all too coincidental... and they are creating all such synthetic drugs to further complicate the crisis. I mean It's not a coincidence that the Wuhan lab is funded by the American, French and god only knows what other tax payers even though their scientists were supposedly kicked out soon after it's opening. It's seems to me this is deliberately done to destroy our countries from within. Maybe I'm crazy. I also find interesting parallels with the world military games being held in Wuhan not long before the virus crisis it seems to be that governments of the world are indeed wrapped up in such institutions or maybe it's time for me to pull out my tinfoil hat. Maybe I'm connecting too many dots all at once.