Millennium Health, a drug testing company that monitors drug use for pain management and drug addiction treatment centers, publishes "Signals Reports" on emerging drug use trends based on urine drug test samples across the country. In September 2023, the Millenium Signals Report revealed their labs detected the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine, which drug trafficking organizations mix with fentanyl to enhance its potency (users call it "tranq"), in all regions of the country but most heavily concentrated in the eastern US. The report found that people who tested positive for fentanyl plus xylazine were more likely to use multiple other substances as well, including cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and diverted prescription pain pills. On July 16, Millenium Health published a "Signals Alert" warning that the xylazine scourge has picked up steam in western states. The report states that since the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) declared xylazine an emerging threat in April 2023, "the greatest gains in xylazine use were largely in the western half of the US; the Pacific, Mountain, and West North Central Census Divisions all increased significantly; New England also increased significantly."
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- Millennium Health a drug testing company that monitors drug use for pain 1
- Reports on emerging drug use trends based on urine drug test samples 1
- The report found that people who tested positive for fentanyl plus xylazine 2
- On July 16 Millenium Health published a Signals Alert warning that the 2
- Mountain and West North Central Census Divisions all increased 2
- However xylazine-positive urine tests remain highest in the East with 2
- Rates were highest in Pennsylvania New York and Ohio. 2
- Congress has not yet required the Drug Enforcement Administration to add 2
- ONDCP declared xylazine a threat in 2023 multiple states responded to 2
- Examples of Schedule III drugs include ketamine codeine and anabolic 2
- Schedule I no currently accepted medical use and high potential for 2
- II medically useful but with a high potential for abuse. That hasnʼt 2
- As I explained in the past the iron law of prohibitionthe harder the 2
- Intensified law enforcement incentivizes drug trafficking organizations to 2
- Another more powerful tranquilizer medetomidine used in both veterinary 3
- Pennsylvania and Canada toxicology studies. These drugs are similar to 3
- Like a broken record policymakers continue the futile war on drugs which 3
