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Local harm-reduction group distributing legal xylazine test strips, joins sheriff's crisis training
Summary
Brad Bishop said the group's xylazine test strips are now legal after a law he said he wrote was signed July 1; he said his group will participate in a two-hour block of the sheriff's crisis intervention training funded by opioid abatement dollars and warned that xylazine and similar sedatives do not reverse with naloxone.
Brad Bishop told the advisory board his organization has begun distributing the community's first legal xylazine test strips after a law he said he wrote and that was sponsored by Rep. Salzman and Sen. Gates was signed July 1.
Bishop described xylazine and a related compound, metatomidine, as veterinary tranquilizers that are increasingly appearing in the illegal drug supply and said they extend the effects of fentanyl while bringing additional harms, including slow-healing skin wounds. He warned that these compounds do not reverse with naloxone and said no human reversal agent currently exists.
Bishop also reported that his group will participate in a two-hour block within the sheriff's co-responder unit's crisis intervention training, an expansion from an originally proposed 30-minute slot, and said that training time was funded through opioid-abatement dollars. He offered test strips to interested partners at the meeting.
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