Daily News | Pennsylvania will classify xylazine as a schedule III drug, Gov. Shapiro announces
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday his administration plans to schedule xylazine, the powerful veterinary sedative, as a schedule III drug.
“This drug is a serious threat,” said Shapiro in Kensington, which has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic. “Even more so because a lot of times when people take it, they don’t even realize it’s mixed in with the fentanyl that they’re purchasing.”A powerful sedative in Philly’s drug supply is causing severe wounds and agonizing withdrawals. It’s quickly becoming unavoidable.
In Philadelphia, epidemiologists believe xylazine was initially added to fentanyl to give the opioid a longer-lasting high, similar to that of heroin. Except xylazine is not an opioid and its effects are more aggressive. Users report blacking out, forgetting things, and developing wounds in places throughout the body they never injected.
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