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overdose cases and deaths. There is an upside. When we have opioid overdose cases we work to find all the people involved in the pipeline that got that drug to the user and bring charges that may apply. For example, if we have a death from an overdose our drug unit officers will try to find the supplier of the drug and charge them with the death, such as manslaughter or possibly homicide," Fah delineated.
After Xylazine was introduced into Philadelphia, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert, due to its pernicious effects. The drug destroys layers of skin at the injection site, which potentially stops respiration because of blockage in the airway and withdrawal symptoms.
The United States has been in a drug epidemic for decades, and Kensington is evident of such. This overdose crisis has only increased in recent years, now mainly characterized by illicitly manufactured drugs such as cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. The number of drug involved overdose deaths in 2021 increased by an estimated 51% since 2015, with synthetic opioids being the most common drug found in overdose cases.
Christopher Kohn teaches Principles of Biomedical sciences, including units of forensic science. He believes this increase is a result of numerous factors. "First one is the lowered