March 21, 2024
It was one year and 10 days ago that US Senator Chuck Schumer told CBS News last year about the dangers of animal medicine Xylazine, and how it was being used as a street drug. “It can rot your skin, it can eat away at your bones, it can cause your legs to be amputated,” Schumer said in March, 2023.
The latest now is that Steuben County officials say Xylazine has been spotted in this county, in Hornell, where Police Chief Ted Murray noted that it’s been mixed with cocaine, heroin and even marijuana.
County D.A. Brooks Baker says the biggest danger with Xylazine is, you cannot use Narcan to reverse the effects of an overdose of Xylazine. “What’s really scary,” Brooks Baker said this morning, “is that we’ve sort of gotten used to using Narcan to reverse overdoses from Fentynal and heroin – and people are readily carrying it, police officers have Narcan and so do first responders. However ‘Tranq’ this Xylazine substance, does not respond to Narcan. So if you have somebody who has taken this Xylazine as it’s being mixed with heroin, meth, and cocaine, if someone overdoses, you can’t save them with Narcan,” Baker said.
