Daily News | Test strips for xylazine, the animal tranquilizer contaminating Philly’s drug supply, could be coming to the city soon, health department officials say
, work similarly to a COVID-19 antigen test. A drug is dissolved in water and the test, a long strip of paper, is dipped in. As the water soaks the strip, it activates a control line to indicate that the test is working, and then activates a second line to indicate the presence of xylazine.Fentanyl testing strips work the same way. Neither test can show the amount of fentanyl or xylazine in a given substance — just their presence.
in 2021, with 1,276 deaths. Fentanyl was present in 94% of deaths involving opioids, and 77% of all overdose deaths. Xylazine was present in 34% of all deaths — a 39% increase from the year before.began replacing heroin in the city’s drug supply in the mid-2010s Because xylazine is not an opioid, people who use opioids laced with it are at risk for overdoses that are harder to treat with naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing drug. As with fentanyl, many drug users became dependent on xylazine unintentionally.The new tests are effective in finding xylazine at fairly low concentrations, lower than what is typically seen in street drugs, said Alex Krotulski, the associate director at CFSRE who conducted the research on the strips.
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