# 204

Yes, mixtures of CNS Depressants may take a “user” down, more quickly, but now the mixtures are so complex that they are presenting Medical personnel with a conundrum that renders revival antidotes; useless and Medical personnel struggling to overcome the effects of the new animal tranquilizer that grabs-hold of the victims Brain receptors that keep the “user” sedated.

In this particular war, chemists and drug dealers are producing/marketing substances for profit. Their “enemy”/customers are the street users who seek to get “low.”  Yes, they use the term “high”, but Fentanyl ant Medetomidine are Central Nervous System (CNS) depressants that slow respiration/heart rate, reduce pain (analgesic) and, increasingly, they are being mixed.

The results are now found to be confounding the “medics” in this “war” because NARCAN may not revive someone who has self-administered the mixture - wittingly or unwittingly.

Treatment/revival becomes more difficult.

Here’s one emerging article:

https://www.substanceusephilly.com/medetomidine

Again, why purchase & self administer substances from “some dude on the street” and not by prescription from a Doctor and then a pharmacist?

Why would a self-administering “user” play “Russian Roulette” with their life, especially when the “high” they seek will quickly take them so “low” that they risk death?