While xylazine test strips are commercially available for consumer use, research is needed to understand the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of utilizing these tools as a harm reduction strategy, as well as what other types of interventions may be effective for preventing xylazine-related harms...
xylazine-involved overdose rates have surged in recent years, fueled by an increasingly toxic and synthetic illicit drug supply in North America.MethodsThis narrative review assessed major epidemiological trends in xylazine-involved overdoses in North America, aiming to identify harm reduction priorities....
Reducing the harms of xylazine: clinical approaches, research deficits, and public health context 2023, Harm Reduction Journal Xylazine Adulteration of the Heroin-Fentanyl Drug Supply A Narrative Review 2023, Annals of Internal Medicine Opioid overdoses involving xylazine in emergency department patients:...
The DEA said it had seized mixtures of the two drugs from 48 of the 50 states, and a Philadelphia-based harm reduction organization told CBS News last month that about 90% of the city's drug supply was tainted with xylazine. "It is not unusual for a sample obtained on the street to ...
RT is currently a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded post doctoral fellow at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) and contributes as board member at New York Harm Reduction Educators, Inc. (NYHRE). Competing interests The author declares that they...
Alixe Dittmore, a training and content development coordinator with the National Harm Reduction Coalition who provides direct care to people who use drugs,told CBS News in Aprilthat these wounds often appear on injection sites or on limbs. The wounds are not like abscesses, which are common am...
doi:10.1186/s12954-024-01097-5Michaels, Nichole L.Bista, SarojShort Mejia, AshleyHays, HannahSmith, Gary A.BioMed CentralHarm Reduction Journal
A registered nurse and lead author of a journal article on skin wounds associated with the increasingly prevalent street drug adulterant xylazine said she was motivated to publish on this topic because of a disturbing "catch‐22" her patients experience. Among people who use drugs, the presence...
Background Addressing xylazine harms are now a critical harm reduction priority, but relatively little epidemiological information exists to determine prevalence, magnitude, and correlates of xylazine use or related outcomes.Methods We conducted a rapid behavioral survey among people who inject drugs (n=...
and the distribution of fentanylxylazine test kits,and naloxone have been undertaken to mitigate this crisis.Fentanyl-related overdose deaths persist despite these efforts,partly due to inconsistent policies across states and resistance towards adopting harm reduction strategies.A multifaceted approach is ...