DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is warning the American public of a sharp increase in the trafficking of fentanyl mixed with xylazine. Xylazine, also known as “Tranq,” is a powerful sedative that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for veterinary use.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” said Administrator Milgram. “DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 of 50 States. The DEA Laboratory System is reporting that in 2022 approximately 23% of fentanyl powder and 7% of fentanyl pills seized by the DEA contained xylazine.”
Xylazine and fentanyl drug mixtures place users at a higher risk of suffering a fatal drug poisoning. Because xylazine is not an opioid, naloxone (Narcan) does not reverse its effects. Still, experts always recommend administering naloxone if someone might be suffering from drug poisoning. People who inject drug mixtures containing xylazine also can develop severe wounds, including necrosis—the rotting of human tissue—that may lead to amputation.
While xylazine is primarily used in veterinary medicine, it has also been used illicitly as a recreational drug, particularly in combination with other drugs such as opioids. When used recreationally, xylazine is often referred to as "tranquilizer darts," "sleeping pills," or "zannies."
Using Xylazine can cause some terrible wounds that can result in death.
These are Xylazine-induced leg skin ulcers from injections. These examples are from heroin laced with xylazine.
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This makes no sense. Why would they intentionally kill off their customers. Fentanyl is so addictive in it's own right that this isn't at all necessary. How does this make them more money? I am skeptical.
ReplyDeleteWhere does it say they intentionally kill their customers?
DeleteI have started to realize that there customers are the wholesalers and not the addicts.
DeleteI believe the reason for this additive is because the supply of fentanyl and precursors has become an issue. This would be due to the uptick in lab busts in Sinaloa.
@Mica interesting theory, thanks.
DeleteDo you think the xylazine is cut into Fentanyl in Mexico by Mexican Cartels OR rather cut into the fetty “dope” in the USA??!
Also, judging by seizure data from US law enforcement, xylazine seems to have first appeared in Kensington then spread through the Upper Northeast and places like Ohio and Massachusetts….
Now the same exact mix is often seen in Oregon and Cali…..
www.drugsdata.org
Hello mica, that would mean drugs are produced “just in time” if they already feel the busts. I consider this as a good sign.
DeleteI’m surprised y’all still think Mexican cartels are doing the cocaine fentanyl combination now this fentanyl with xylazine. Mexican cartels just produce the drug, second hand sellers, or in other words plugs or middle man are the people who do the combination for there convenience. Just like crack or cocaine or crack are mixed with all kinds of junk to make a profit.
DeleteThe wholesalers usually do these dumb things and it gets adjusted
Deleteyou are right, but, if the wholesalers get cracked too hard with investigations, they can't work, and those are the investigations that end up multi state/Mexico based supplier indictments.
1:23 I'm surprised you think they are not.
DeleteEvery documentary about drug dealers always talk about how great it is for business when someone ods.
Delete01:23 they are making fake RX pills with fetty, making meth cut with fetty in Mexico, and cutting coca with fetty in Mexico.
DeleteNot all cocaine is cut with fetty and not all cocaine comes through CDS & CJNG.... There are many many major players in the USA with an extensive and deadly reach that get supplies from other routes.
However, there are public reports of cartel members dead in a running car after snorting cocaine straight from Mexico (they were found with a fresh brick of open cocaine)
DEA and DHS HSI Investigation followed the cocaine shipment from Mexico to the dead dealer
9:03 *cutting
DeleteXylazine is a non-opiate sedative, analgesic, and muscle relaxant only authorized in the United States for veterinary use according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It is not currently a controlled substance under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Started in Philly and the middle men in us cut for more bulk to sell
Deletehttps://insightcrime.org/news/mexico-posture-fentanyl-says-us-mexico-relations/
ReplyDeleteMaybe worth reading
Love insight crime memo fantasma article was gold
DeleteYes but a sad one too as he walks free again
DeleteSo is this stuff like that krokidil that came out of Russia few years back. It also ate your skin. I think they don’t know wtf they’re doing and mix up bad batches. That’s where the lesions and sores come from.
ReplyDeleteThose sore are because you are injecting gasoline and codeine and red phosphorus in your body and missing your veins. Krokodil has to be made at the moment with a cook. You see in the videos. The addicts have make it themselves. So it’s completely unrefined and dirty.
DeleteBefore Ovidio’s arrest, The Chapitos issues had nothing to do with the number of labs or precursors. No, the cartel had problems staffing knowledgeable chemists.
ReplyDeleteThat led to several university professors being kidnapped and forced to teach chemistry to the cooks. This is how Chapitos expanded the Fentanyl market.
So yeah, my lengthy answer is yes, it’s a “just in time” drug and probably state side in a week.
Search YouTube for"Kensington" and watch some of the videos. You will see some people standing up but bending over with their heads down by their knees. They are completely asleep. This is xylazine.
ReplyDeleteAs others have said, the xylazine is most likely used as a cutting agent, added by thise further down the distribution chain, likely inside the USA. I doubt the cartels are adding it themselves, since one of the benefits of fentanyl is its high potency meaning a lower physical volume of drug needs to be smuggled across the border, why reduce its potency and thus require greater risk smuggling a larger volume of product?
ReplyDeleteBut the US gov likes to call anyone in the distribution chain “cartel” members. Right down to some thug slanging dope on the street corner.
Reminiscent of Russia’s krokodil problem.
ReplyDeleteVancouver has had the same problem but with benzo dope for the past 5 years. Fent cut with benzos(etizolam,bromazelam) which knocks people out completely without memory. Just recently xylazine has been introduced to the market as well. So now some dope has Fent,benzos and tranc(xylazine) in it and is really really complicating overdoses. It’s good the govt is introducing safe supplies of fent ,heroin, dilly’s, coke and meth for addicts. Luckily spectrometers are all over so testing your dope is easy.
ReplyDeleteDillys?
Delete09:36 damn, you guys have all the good dope in Canada.
DeleteI assume by Dillys he means Dilaudid, a brand name product containing hydromorphone (a semi synthetic opiate)
Delete9:20 that’s it
DeleteOpiates are death. LSD rules.
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