That xylazine stuff is a vasoconstrictor that causes skin lesions, opiates don't do that. Clean and pure opiates will not make your skin rot off your arms like that.
Xylazine also is physically incapacitating and makes people get completely locked into their bodies, opiates don't do that.
And narcan won't fix a OD-ing addict with xylazine in their system because it's not technically an opiate and so narcan won't reverse the effects.
No opiate addict would ever choose to do this stuff, it doesn't satisfy their opiate fix, and has little to no euphoria.
In a regulated system this problem would entirely go away. This is being pushed on people who have no option other than black market stuff pushed by cartels who are now in bed with China.
It definitely matters.
That xylazine stuff is a vasoconstrictor that causes skin lesions, opiates don't do that. Clean and pure opiates will not make your skin rot off your arms like that.
Xylazine also is physically incapacitating and makes people get completely locked into their bodies, opiates don't do that.
And narcan won't fix a OD-ing addict with xylazine in their system because it's not technically an opiate and so narcan won't reverse the effects.
No opiate addict would ever choose to do this stuff, it doesn't satisfy their opiate fix, and has little to no euphoria.
In a regulated system this problem would entirely go away. This is being pushed on people who have no option other than black market stuff pushed by cartels who are now in bed with China.