Xylazine Poisoning in Clinical and Forensic Practice: Analysis Method, Characteristics, Mechanism and Future Challenges
Tingting Mai, Youyou Zhang, Shuquan Zhao, Youssef Sari · 2023
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Tingting Mai and co-authors published a review paper in 2023 on poisoning by xylazine, a veterinary sedative increasingly abused alongside street opioids. The drug's vague symptoms delay diagnosis, and its role in deaths is hard to prove when other toxins are present. Fatal levels in blood and organs are seldom reported.
The review gathers what is known for doctors and forensic teams: how the drug acts, how labs can detect it, and what fatal cases have shown. It weighs how xylazine mixes with other drugs in overdose deaths. Gaps in testing and reporting are flagged as the field's next work. The authors intend the survey as a working reference for hard cases.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tingting Mai, Youyou Zhang, Shuquan Zhao, Youssef Sari |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |