'The problem is worsening.' Fatal drug doses involving an animal tranquilizer are on the rise in parts of the United States. Experts are sounding the alarm because unlike opioids, there's no antidote to reverse a xylazine overdose.
But unlike opioids, there’s no antidote like naloxone, also called Narcan, specific to a xylazine overdose.
Supportive measures can be used if a person is attended to early enough, such as resuscitation, getting them fluids and other sorts of hospital care, Hadland said. “But this is much more difficult to manage out in the community because it’s inevitably going to be an overdose that involves multiple substances including opioids,” he said.
One or more other drugs were also listed as the cause of the overdose deaths, including heroin and cocaine, with fentanyl being the most common, according to the CDC report.“Fentanyl we know to be in the drug supply. We know it’s in the heroin supply, so often when you think you’re buying heroin, you’re in fact getting fentanyl. I think that’s what’s happening with xylazine,” Hadland said. “You think you’re getting heroin and you’re getting something that’s cut with xylazine.
“She was trying to help them out. She did everything she could to try and help them get clean and they pulled her down,” Walker said while visiting Goodwin’s grave earlier this month.“There are so many people that would like to not be that haven’t been able to beat it. Those might be the people that would actually hear this and understand this and it might help and that would be super,” Walker said.
Brooke died on March 14, 2021, two days after her birthday and a day before her mother’s. She “enjoyed her dog, photography, road trips and investigating the supernatural,” according to her obituary.
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