The fourth wave of the U.S. overdose crisis involves the use of illicit fentanyl mixed with stimulants such as cocaine or methamphetamine, and it’s killing people in droves.
“Users are further lured into the fallacy that combining stimulants with fentanyl decreases the risk of overdose and gives them more energy and time to obtain funds to use the substances again," Glatter added.What's also clear from the new study is that deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants disproportionately strike racial and ethnic minority communities. “We must devoteRoutine use of fentanyl strips in clinics may be helpful, he noted.
and even children are attracted to the colorful pills because they resemble candy, unaware of the lethal consequences,” Glatter said.and children about the risks of polysubstance abuse, including the wide availability of lethal counterfeit pills containing fentanyl combined with dangerous stimulants,” Glatter warned.
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