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Yadira Caraveo: “This is not an opioid. And so all of the Education that…”

Featuring: Yadira Caraveo, Former U.S. House Representative, Colorado, District 8

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My first year in Congress with Rep. Yadira Caraveo & Rep. Brittany Pettersen

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It's called the Tranq act, which has to do with xylazine, which is a new non opioid tranquilizer that has infiltrated the markets around the same way that fentanyl has. This is not an opioid. And so all of the Education that we've done around the use of Narcan does not apply to this drug. It is not intended for human use. It's actually a veterinary tranquilizer that people like my cousin, who is a veterinarian have used in the past to tranquilize cows and … (20:36–20:46)

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Asserts that Narcan education does not apply to xylazine because it is not an opioid.

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