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- 🧪 #Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer. Found in fentanyl and heroin – it makes the risk of #overdose much higher. Test strips can help people who use drugs make safer choices. ✔ These strips are available for free at 100 Wisconsin locations: (link) #opioids - x.com
- 🚨 🚨 The drug crisis is evolving faster than families can keep up. Get informed now. 👉 (link) ((link) A new report out of Staten Island highlights a growing and deeply dangerous trend: veterinary sedatives are now fueling overdose deaths across the country. The latest threat? Drugs like xylazine (“tranq”)—a veterinary sedative never approved for human use—are being mixed into street drugs like fentanyl. Here’s why this is so dangerous: • These substances are not opioids, which means Narcan may not fully reverse the overdose • They slow breathing, heart rate, and brain function, dramatically increasing the risk of death • Users often have no idea what they are taking—the drug supply is now unpredictable and constantly changing • Long-term use can lead to severe wounds, tissue death, and even amputations 👉 This is no longer just an opioid crisis. 👉 This is a synthetic, multi-drug poisoning crisis. And here is the hard truth families need to understand: Your loved one is not making a rational decision anymore. Their brain is being hijacked by substances that are more powerful, more unpredictable, and more lethal than anything we’ve seen before. That’s why treatment alone is often not enough. ✔ Treatment works ✔ But only if the person actually gets there… ✔ And stays long enough for recovery to take hold When they cannot make that decision themselves, the legal system may be the only tool that allows a family to step in and save their life. 👉 Read the article: (link) If your family is dealing with this—don’t wait until it’s too late. #Addiction #MentalHealth #Recovery #FentanylCrisis #Xylazine #BakerAct #MarchmanAct #Intervention #SaveLives @CDCgov @NIH @HHSGov @NIDAnews @DEAHQ @GovRonDeSantis @FLSurgeonGen @MayorEricAdams - x.com
Harm Reduction Discourse
- 🟢 Harm reduction is supervised consumption sites. Harm reduction is me telling my psychiatrist I'm going to try a new hallucinogenic drug, so she tells me which meds I shouldn't take that day to minimize interactions. Harm reduction is carrying naloxone & knowing how to use it. - x.com
- 🚫 Safe supply isn’t saving lives — it’s entrenching addiction and the chaos that comes with it. I spent six months working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Walking down West Hastings, inhaling second hand fentanyl in the air while police cruised past, overtime piling up, and nothing changing. It’s hard to call that progress. A grenade launcher, weapons, and ammunition were seized from an SRO beside my studio. Bus passengers forced off because crack is being smoked onboard. Businesses closing. People in crisis, still suffering in plain sight. This isn’t compassion. It’s neglect dressed up as policy. If you haven’t spent time in the gritty underbelly of the DTES — watching the disorder, the danger, and the human toll up close — spare the platitudes. What’s happening isn’t working, and pretending otherwise helps no one. - x.com
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- 💸 Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA FY25 Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use, Site-Based Program - Deadline: May 4, 2026
- 💸 Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP FY25 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative - Deadline: May 4, 2026