Horse tranquilizer crops up in overdose deaths around US
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A horse tranquilizer drug often found mixed with opioids is increasingly involved in overdose deaths in some U.S. states.
Now, Connecticut is the latest state to report a rise in overdose deaths involving xylazine, according to a report published Thursday (Sept. 16) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In the new study, researchers from the Connecticut Department of Public Health found that unintentional overdose deaths in the state that involved xylazine increased from 5.8% in 2019 to 11.4% in the first half of 2020. Virtually all of the xylazine-associated deaths (99%) also involved fentanyl, the report said.
The findings are similar to those found in Philadelphia and published in a study earlier this year in the journal Injury Prevention. That study found that, between 2010 and 2015, xylazine was detected in just 2% of unintentional overdose deaths involving heroin or fentanyl. But by 2019, that figure had jumped to 31%, Live Science previously reported.
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