Animal sedative xylazine, being laced with fentanyl, can cause breathing and heart rates to drop and is also linked to severe skin ulcers and abscesses, which can lead to infections, rotting tissue and amputations.
The bill is a priority for Gov. Youngkin, who was infuriated when a committee rejected the idea last year. He highlighted the measure in his state of the state speech.
A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating addiction.
Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.
A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl.
Accidental overdose is now a primary cause of deaths for people under 40, and a“fourth great wave” of deaths driven by drugs spiked with fentanyl is washing over young America.
Nobody can say how much deadly fentanyl ends up on Virginia’s streets. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed legislation to crack down on making counterfeit pills.
Nobody can say how much deadly fentanyl ends up on Virginia’s streets. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed legislation to crack down on making counterfeit pills.
Nobody can say how much deadly fentanyl ends up on Virginia’s streets. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed legislation to crack down on making counterfeit pills.
