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LITTLE ROCK, Ark- The Arkansas Department of Health is issuing a warning about a deadly drug combination of xylazine and fentanyl after the USDA said the mixture is making the deadliest drug threat in the nation, fentanyl, even deadlier.
The DEA said xylazine and fentanyl mixtures have been seized in 48 states and the mixtures place its users at a higher risk of suffering a fatal drug poisoning.
Dr. Bala Simon, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the ADH said there have already been reports in Arkansas.
“Since the beginning of the year we have had 8 cases of xylazine-related overdoses,” Simon said.
Simon said those overdoses did not lead to deaths, but a lot of the overdoses related to xylazine go unreported.
“There's no drug test to detect xylazine, it has to be a special lab run test,” Simon said.
Simon said the highly toxic substance is also not FDA-authorized for human use.
“It is typic...
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