The British Columbia Interior Health authority is warning street-drug users of a synthetic cannabinoid that has been linked to a so-called 'zombie' outbreak in New York.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- The British Columbia Interior Health authority is warning street-drug users of a synthetic cannabinoid that has been linked to a so-called "zombie" outbreak in New York.
The authority warns that users can look like they have overdosed on opioids, but they won't respond to naloxone and they can experience "speedy" or "trippy" symptoms with possible hallucinations.says the drug caused a mass intoxication of 33 people in New York City in July 2016 and was described in the media as a "zombie" outbreak because of the appearance of those who took the drug.
Corneil says they don't like to use the zombie term because it can give people the wrong impression and what is important is they exercise caution when new substances come on the black market."Often overdose deaths are caused by a mix of different substance together and we're not seeing any increase in overdose deaths related to this substance, relative to the impact of fentanyl, which is the major toxin we have in our drug supply right now.
"This is the problem with criminalization, in that it takes away any of the safeguards that the system puts in place to ensure that people get the product they think they're buying and it hasn't been mixed with something else."
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