What is Xylazine? (tranq additive)

[Chip (OP)]

source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11567057/Animal-tranquilizer-xylazine-laced-inside-Illicit-drugs-like-coke-molly-FDA-warns.html

see also https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/xylazine

What is xylazine?

Xylazine^Wiki is a non-opioid agent that FDA originally approved in 1972 as a sedative and analgesic for use in veterinary medicine.

The drug acts as a central alpha-2- adrenergic receptor agonist in the brainstem, causing a rapid decrease in the release of norepinephrine and dopamine in the central nervous system (CNS).

Xylazine may also bind to other CNS receptors, although further research is needed.

Xylazine is not approved for use in humans.

Symptoms and risks

Signs and symptoms of acute xylazine toxicity may include labored breathing, high blood pressure, a slow heart rate, hypothermia and high blood-sugar levels.

Overdoses may appear similar to that of opioids, making it difficult to distinguish.

But unlike opioids, xylazine overdoses cannot be curtailed with naloxone, the emergency opioid overdose reversal drug.

Repeated exposure to xylazine, by injection, has been associated with severe, necrotic skin ulcerations that are distinctly different from other soft-tissue infections (e.g., cellulitis, abscesses) often associated with injection drug use.

These ulcerations may develop in areas of the body away from the site of injection.

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My thoughts on this

The drug must be banned ASAP ! It must be legal to buy at this time.