KFL&A Public Health warns of toxic drug supply – Kingston | 24CA News
KFL&A Public Health has launched an alert to warning residents about an elevated detection of xylazine and benzodiazepines in Ontario’s unregulated drug provide.
It says the alert is in response to a notification lately given by the chief medical officer of well being and chief coroner to public well being models all through Ontario.
Both xylazine, a extremely poisonous animal tranquillizer, and benzodiazepines are potent sedatives that will contribute to an elevated danger of drug poisoning and demise when utilizing medicine from the unregulated market, the well being unit says.
According to the well being unit, the signs of xylazine and benzodiazepine toxicity can resemble these linked to opioids, together with extreme drowsiness, unconsciousness and gradual or absent respiration.
Naloxone won’t be efficient in treating xylazine or benzodiazepines, however it’s nonetheless beneficial to manage it since these substances are generally discovered with opioids.
Xylazine may trigger extreme pores and skin lesions, resembling ulcers or abscesses, for individuals who inject medicine.
The well being unit says the unregulated drug provide is unpredictable and drug poisonings are more and more difficult.
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