Xylazine-laced fentanyl is causing wounds and amputations, but is it driving up overdose deaths?
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2023
- A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating addiction.
Xylazine can cause severe skin wounds, but whether it is leading to more deaths - as suggested by officials in Washington - is not yet clear, according to health and law enforcement professionals on the front lines of efforts in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. In fact, early data suggests the drug may inadvertently be diluting the effects of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid behind most overdose deaths. (AP Video: Tassanee Vejpongsa)
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I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to fentanyl for over 6 years. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 3 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
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YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I'm really happy for you that your friend decided to help you...I hear about alot of family members or so called friends shutting an addict out of their life, which since most addicts do it to mask emotions to me is the worse thing someone can do to an addict.
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
sobriety speaks ❤ i am here for anyone of you, on day 6 and still pushing yall!!
I’ve been off blues for about 3 years after I overdosed
These poor souls.
I would have never believed that something so similar to Krokodil would become popular in the West.
the west as a whole is in decline it's only going to get worse in the next few decades
❤😅😅 atàa😮
It's not popular it's cheaper so it's used as fuller. They don't know they're doing it
@user-nn2gc3yb1x initially that was the case but they're literally calling it tranq now. They know what it is. They're just already hooked and at rock bottom
Exactly what I was thinking.
Lord help your people with addictions.
He wont do it, so then youv got to ask why
@loadapish
He will help those that does really want to change
Most addicts dont want help, dont want to change making thousands bad excuses
CHRIST IS THE ONLY ANSWER, addicted or not!
Wow. So sad to see all these people succumb to such a horrifying ordeal. I hope they find peace.
Did it to themselves
There will not be a solution to opioids until there is a solution to physical dependence / withdrawal. It's amazing we aren't throwing everything we can at this issue. For example, Ibogaine therapy shows a lot of potential for treating withdrawal, but it cannot be used in the US due to its classification. Another example is the NSS-2 Bridge device. New technology and scientific discoveries will solve the issue.... not social and legal programs.
Don't be fooled, we can solve this epidemic, there is scientific technology that we can use to make the users stop craving the drug and still be happy, but the rich need ppl like this, so that they can stay rich, it funds the hospitals, the shelters and the city to have poverty....along with wealthy ppl.. it's sad that it's a world like that, but hopefully that changes. And Love sweeps in America.
@@stevensongrey658 You lose all credibility the moment you start spouting silly conspiracies.
The fact that you think addiction is a scientific issue and not a material one tells me you know nothing about how the world works.
@@user-ev4sx8sm6v how is that a silly conspiracy? I'm sorry but you must not live in America, because if you did then you would stand corrected... The Rich elites absolutely refuse to cure the drug addiction epidemic, because if everyone is happy and sober then that means overpopulated intelligence! When ppl are drowning in addiction, they are able to control the masses alot easier then if ppl were actually sober and inventing new technology and coming up with ideas to actually help the people living in poverty, and relieving the population of stress, like not paying rehab bills, doctor bills and insurance policies , free energy and ways to feed and shelter the homeless... So in fact YOU lose all credibility when YOU start spouting out pessimistic statements.
We don’t know if it’s more dangerous yet? Uhhhh how can they even say that? It’s blatantly obvious.
They’re even lacing fentanyl now 😭
I know man. you gotta make your own drugs nowadays 😢
Or not do drugs at all
Government is responsible for this. Their policies have allowed this.
The worst is for the people who have Diabetes with the Ketoacidosis, that's a SURE way to lose your toes and fingers..lfriends of mine wit Diabetes AND addiction
My father died of an overdose this week I'm devastated. I have no parents alive now and I'm in a state of complete loss.
@@meaganvalenti2946 Sorry for your loss. Stay strong
@@meaganvalenti2946rry for your loss .
@@meaganvalenti2946Very sorry for your loss. Blessings of comfort to you.
@@meaganvalenti2946maybe its better without them.
SAY NO TO DRUGS!!!!!
Ok nancy
It’s not that simple…
Just say no to liquor!!! Just stop drinking with your friends on the weekend's... I bet you couldn't!!
The drug dealing Reagans said it best and the bums should follow that.
Including pills.
The Concrete Confessional blog guy just dropped a couple of articles about xylazine in the Northeast U.S., as well as a trip report from when he injected veterinary xylazine during college. Hilarious stories, but he includes some serious reporting as well - worth checking out
Really sad they ever started. Choices in life have consequences.
Stop doing drugstore. Free will and will power. Say no!!!!
Maybe "someone" think its a way to get rid of the addict problem in Kensington.....just a thought.
It's everywhere though it's not just there
It’s horrible here in the twin cities
@@1969csnah kensington and san fransisco are the biggest/worst open air drug capitals of the USA. You wont find it any worst than those places. Kensington is hands down the worst.
Charlotte last month
@@deebodigitalno way...parts of the Queen city are like this now too???😢
I have a similar wound on one of my feet. From working! But I will go working again on Monday, using bandage.
If these drugs weren't being produced then it wouldn't be available rite and who is producing them stop that and it will end a lot of this or take away the help these people are getting and let it do its thing
Evil people are living the life of luxury on the back of this human misery.tdrug abuse s a global problem,and needs a united global response.i ry inside for the tortured souls caught up in addiction and pray this problem can be overcome worldwide.peace to all
Stop blaming the drug dealers, it's weak willed people who CHOOSE to do drugs
Do hyperbaric chambers help in the healing? If a?wound is scraped out, cut out where possible, intervenojs antibiotics in conjuction with a HB CHAMBER
I just watched a Kensington documentary where a guy said people are self amputating limbs. Can anyone comment to that?
This also happened in the 70s. This is not new, but it's getting worse.
Slow and very painful.way to go..they can't stop.
They were constitutionally inferior and you're seeing these unfortunates fall by the wayside.
Their own fault
Its pretty quick lol
be kind to others
All the reports are so new, are we not more likely dealing with a krokodil situation and its nothing to do with the Xylazine but the unreacted precursors and other impurities.
imagine if this happened 300 yrs ago we would be EFFED as a society
As former addict let me tell you: the reason so many addicts won’t quit is because they have everything they need at their fingertips: wound care, clothing drop offs, free meals, clean needles, etc. The line b/w charity & enabling people is blurred. People won’t quit when they don’t hit rock bottom, they’ll never hit rock bottom this way.
people did not ask to become addicted to this drug and you have to meet people where they are at. it's far more important to save people from having limbs amputated than it is to appease your moral judgement about when they should or shouldn't stop using a drug they never asked to become addicted to.
Meeting an addict where the are at is encouraging them to die
How many have to die before we help those in need? Show compassion for your fellow human. Disgraceful.
This is why it’s hard to feel sorry for these people! They don’t want to change only thing they want is the next high and to ge lazy. They don’t want to return to society work and be normal.
In democrat cities right?
Zalazine should not be cut with fetty then why are they mix them
Nobody heard of Say No to drugs ?!
Who do you think lets it enter the country.
Nobody lets it in. It’s smuggled in. Hard to believe
Joe Byron!
Why governments are silent...
bc they want the addicts dead
Because they have the same problem with overdosing patients in mental hospital prisons, just using other types of chemicals.
These people really need to be committed to federally funded mental / drug facilities
There really aren’t any federally funded drug facilities. And there is really no way that the current congress we have is going to agree to set some up. Because in the two party system, if Dems suggest someone Republicans will automatically be against it. And if Republicans suggest it, Democrats will automatically be against it. There is no way forward from this system we have. This will simply go on until all the users die. Which is what the drug manufacturers want anyway. They want us dead, our own country wants us dead. Nobody cares about us addicts anywhere. If the church wanted us to live the first thing they would have to do is stop homelessness. There is plenty of space in every church auditorium in America to house the homeless. Same with all the schools. Nobody cares about us. Because we are living proof of their failures.
There's no such thing. The feds don't care
Those places are PRISONS, they treat u with other chemical base drugs that are also harmful!! they start u off with an over dose of a drug then taper u down until they feel it's right for u. I seen A large mAN fall on his back while at the VA mental hospital from overdose, ALSO had a hard time eating from being drugged up.FACT
We used to have that, you can thank Reagan
@@seanmcphail936 reagan defunded federal mental hospitals funding
Blame the problem on someone else or another country.
That's so sad
How sad .....
We "have to understand" before they are treated, says some sort of health person. Non judgemental fashion says another. Its a war wound--treat it.
Lord help us!!
As long as there is prohibition of the "traditional drugs" there is going to be an unscrupulous chain of illicit supply that only cares about profit. The war on drugs is a failing concept. The world needs a regulated, quality controlled, and sensible approach to drugs.
Lol. So legalizing drugs will solve this problem? Are u kidding? If u legalize it there will be a huge increased numbers of users. And dont try to deny it cuz we already saw that in the abortion case
@@mirasilenthill3348 ask the government when you can abolish the government!!! Let us know their response!!!!
No. Drugs are never ok
@@curtisn6932 So i assume you don't drink, smoke, or drink tea/coffee, or take any kind of medication?
@@mirasilenthill3348yes, legalization (not decriminalisation) would solve almost every problem wrongly attributed to drugs, but actually stemming from prohibition, and would do so overnight.
This is why those whose livings are tied to prohibition are so violently opposed to legalization, which is not a new concept, prohibition is the new thing in human history.
I don't experience such problems as I have enough sense NOT to ingest such garbage, what is YOUR problem ?
Necrotic skin lesions can be cleared up using maggots (grub therapy) I thought.
Better stop worrying about their feelings and start getting straight to the chore issue! What’s wrong with this picture! Geeeeez
Because their feelings and mental health is part of the issue... come on.
And where is it coming from
Probably from Mexico
😢
There is a fentanyl & Xylazine crisis. The overdoses are from these two crisis. You’ll never change my mind.
Xylazine isn't really that powerful. Fentanyl is, but now that this stuff is more in the dope than fenny, it's just destroying everyone's body.
What a horrific plague
A plague that these weak willed people bring upon themselves
It’s deteriorating my health but I will use it over and over again. Just unbelievable
Addiction is NOT rational thinking. Addicts can acknowledge their addiction, but that doesn’t mean they can willfully turn their brains chemical dependent responses off.
Is an addict, needs help, no criticism nor cinism
@@s.r.200and they all need our prayers in Jesus Christ mighty name amen 🙏
@@s.r.200 They need truth not fantasy
@@mirandabri834 Prayers lol? Is that a joke? Prayers won’t stop them from overdosing on fentanyl
Wth????😮😮😮
Now, does the government pay you for your service
This looks horrible I hope you're gathering a lot of numbers and data so the next batch can have a better chance with the resources you have being so limited
So someones forcing people to inject themselves with drugs
Kensington needs you savage sisters!!!!! Amazing women! I live in Toronto Canada and I know the horror stories out there! U women are an amazing organization
Donate to savage sisters, they are the TRUE HELP!
Can't remember the name, but there's a new drug that will be out in the streets soon. 100x as potent as fentenyl.😢
Smh 😡 this drug is terrible
And you can try geadon for heart attack and synthetic
Gosh…if only there was some way to prevent this.
Get a President in the White House who will close the border.
These poor souls need our compassion, love and prayers. Big time.
Yeah cause your prayers help us soooooo much. 😂😂
Interesting
The society that promote always the pleasure, the enjoyment , one way or another, will finish this way.
If it rots the outside of your body, imagine what it’s doing on the INside! 🧟♂️
This breaks my heart.I wish everyone could stop .😢
Use potatoes shreaded up and apply them to the infected area. The potatoes will draw out the yuck and when it does keep it clean and covered in aloe vera
@@mycinnamongirl ever do it
So why hasn't anyone made a video of that working seems like BS
You can't because it is more like a chemical burn but from inside out!
@@FreeOpenTruth use Vaseline for healing chemical burn inside out. Keep it packed in Vaseline.
Not sure if serious 😂
0:50 look at that head of hair!! 🫣
Zombie apocalypse, ask for the Governments pamphlets on their Zombie plan.
And I’m over here tweaking trying to quit smoking blunts. Oof.
Does it improve the high or not? This is the only question an addict wants answered.
😥
Nada a ver..
This has been around for a while.
It's not the drug doing it, it's the additive s.
It should absolutely be stigmatized, nothing about this should be normalized, rationalized or enabled. Don't have to be mean about it, but don't turn off that social pressure to be better.
If you're crazy enough to take this drug, you'll have to face the consequences.
they literally are not taking it on purpose initially as stated in the video. it's infiltrated the supply covertly and people accidentally become hopelessly addicted and of course they will face consequences and decent people who can help reduce harm and save lives will continue to do so.
Spoken like a true conservative.
Wrong! I was a fentanyl addict and doing fine! Now it is all spiked with that garbage!
@@nataliekhanyola5669 sounds like someone is TRIIIIGGGGEERRED
@girlsville, uhh, they were crazy enough to inject drugs into their vains. Enough said.
So, the new Krokodile drug.
Oh, well as long as they're not feeling stigmatised...
😢😢😢
Theres sand flea eggs in it & possibly listeria.
“Brains! Must have BRAAAIIINS!!!”
Space x and the dog leg
The xylezine is causing mitochondria damage.
This is rock bottom
Dead is rock bottom.
It's sad that drug addicts were pushed to a point they're willing to put anything in their bodies...
Or the pressure, or no help for pain or depression.
Ma i pezzi grossi americani xke' non fanno un giretto in quella strada?
Les sociétés civilisées... Le paradoxe
That new tranq dope aka croc
I think Croc is slightly worse. It's a different chemical(s). Very similar though.
Xylazine is not croc
I think croc is desomorphine?
Tranq is xylazine
Edit: with krokodil, it’s not the desomorphine itself that causes all the insane wounds, it’s the chemicals they mix with it on the street
@@AB-ee5tb Tranq is Fentanyl laced with Xylazine.
@@AB-ee5tb💯
That’s what you get I guess!
I was on fentanly since 2005
Useless Person
This isn't pharmaceutical fent tho ..way different
@@wop5627exactly! Ppl don’t understand the difference unless they have used it
Empire decline.
Disgusting
The one thing I find that’s perplexing is that these people know this drug causes that but yet they still buy it and use it
They're addicts. They need to use, to stave off withdrawal.
Very happy to see the problem sorting itself out.
Yet you're still here.
@whateverwhatever4026
Exactly. What an absolute disgusting human with no compassion!
It doesnt. Seems like your brain is brand spanking new.
America …the best country in the world 😂😂😂
Tv ....makes people dumb.
They had and have choices. Getting high has some bad consequences, while the Mexican cartels get rich off of Americans addiction or 8nability to say NO! 😢
Natural selection
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
No one asked for fentanyl either.
It looks like they made a bad choice in life
A mind is a terrible thing to waste 🤪
I don't feel sorry for these people . Call me cynical and unfeeling ! Either get your sh@# together or don"t.
If you had a relative in the same situation,.......
@@robertbobin5053 i have had. its called tough love.
@@robertbobin5053 i did . its called tough love.
Legalize and regulate drugs already. Harm reduction works for the whole community.
I believe it's gov spiking the drug supply. Wouldn't be the first time.
yea, i mean they;re the ones who introduced the fentanyl in the first place
Look how well that worked in Portland, the legalization part anyways
@@nolemon_ It takes time. Be patient. The first few years in Portugal were crazy but it settled down really quick.
They only want Tranq now. They're dependent on it. It's either stop or die. Need to eventually get rid of tranq. Death penalty for big dealers of it.
Ron Paul
Walking Dead
Zombie land
Sickening get off the drug