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WASHINGTON — Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres is asking the Drug Enforcement Administration for information after local health officials detected elephant tranquilizer carfentanil and veterinary anesthetic medetomidine in New York City street drugs.between March and June, including two cases in which the user overdosed, according to the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The composition of street drugs and the risk they pose to users has evolved significantly over time — sending US overdose deaths to an The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says carfentanil was detected in at least seven cases of fatal drug overdoses between January and June 2024 — up from three known instances from 2023.
Health officials recommend “rescue breathing” if apparent overdose victims do not respond to naloxone due to the possible effects of xylazine and medetomidine.The precise contribution of various compounds to overdoses is muddied by the fact that toxicology reports don’t always test for all potential substances or describe their specific analogs.
Opioid addicts largely turned to heroin and other street drugs following the tightening controls on OxyContin and related pain medications — which had been aggressively marketed and heavily dispensed legally, hooking Americans through broad dispensation
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