1. Narcan
2. Users are smoking fentanyl now instead of injecting it
3. Fentanyl is increasingly cut with xylazine, which makes the high last longer, so you have to get high fewer times
4. Dealers just killed a lot of their customer base that was most prone to overdose
Thanks. Yes. I understand xylazine is nasty stuff and a growing problem. I just thought you were attributing the rapid decline in fentanyl deaths to the uptick in tranq use.
The war on drugs created the fentanyl crisis, which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Proponents said stay the course and eventually these high death rates would level off, albeit at a much higher level than before. Meanwhile most doctors no longer prescribe opioid pain medicine at all.
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1. Narcan
2. Users are smoking fentanyl now instead of injecting it
3. Fentanyl is increasingly cut with xylazine, which makes the high last longer, so you have to get high fewer times
4. Dealers just killed a lot of their customer base that was most prone to overdose
Drugs don’t kill people; people kill people