An animal tranquilizer increasingly used to boost the effects of illegal opioid drug use is behind the recent death of a Santa Cruz County woman.
The 35-year-old woman’s death, recorded in early June, has since been determined to be the county’s first known fatal xylazine poisoning case, according to the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency. The woman, found unresponsive, tested positive for drugs including xylazine and fentanyl in postmortem toxicology testing, the agency said in a release Wednesday.
“This tragic event is an important alert to the community that xylazine is confirmed to be present in drugs in Santa Cruz County,” Dr. David Ghilarducci, Santa Cruz County EMS medical director, is quoted in an agency media release. “Fentanyl, alone, is extraordinarily dangerous and is devastating communities across the country. The addition xylazine compounds the risk of street drugs.”
The Public Health Department is alerting local doctors to the increasing prevalence of xylazine in the drug supply.
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