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White House Designates Animal Sedative as an ‘Emerging Drug Threat’

Por: The New York Times Health April 12, 2023

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The White House on Wednesday designated a common animal tranquilizer that is increasingly mixed into street fentanyl as an “emerging drug threat,” a formal move that to create strategies to enhance law enforcement efforts, health interventions and data collection to combat it.This is the first time that the White House’s has ever identified a substance for that designation, a mark of the gravity of the danger that it considers to be posed... + full article



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