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First came fentanyl. Now this state is counting the casualties from another deadly drug. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't this the drug that makes your flesh rot on your bones?

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Krokodil?

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

no, thats krokodil, desomorphine

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not the desomorphine by itself, but the unsanitary conditions they are cooking this from over the counter stuff

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

yeah thats right actually

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xylazine also causes refractory skin lesions similar to krokodil. Current leading hypothesis is that it's because of localized vasoconstriction leading to tissue necrosis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9482722/

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yes! This one!

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, life imitates art, I guess. This reminds me of the SNL "All drug Olympics" sketch where a guy was using a whole list of drugs, ending with "some sort of fish paralyzer". Somebody get me off this planet.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I mean, ketamine has been abused for a long time already. That’s another large animal sedative.