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How much do you know about the street drug xylazine?

Drug-related deaths involving xylazine have increased more than 10-fold from 2018 to 2021. Xylazine—an FDA-approved veterinary sedative used since the 1970s—has increasingly been detected in illicitly manufactured fentanyl powder (23% of seized samples) and fentanyl pills (7% of seized samples) in the U.S. How much do you know about the effects of xylazine? Tap to take the quiz now ...