And addiction rehabilitation center in Florida (USA) warned this crescent friday consumption of a synthetic drug, euthylonewhat has caused 182 deaths between January and July 2021 in the state alone, Leads the nation in drug-related overdose deaths with this drug.
The center Footprints Beachside Recovery Centerlocated in the tampa bay (on the west coast of Florida), warned in a statement of “the increasing prevalence” of euthylone, “a psychoactive bath salt” what can be lethal.
According to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).las overdose deaths related to this synthetic drug in Florida account for more than 53% of the nation as a whole.
This rehabilitation center points out in its statement that although from January to June 2017 euthylone was detected in less than 10 cases in the US, during that same period of time in 2021 8,379 cases related to this drug were recorded.
Due to Similar effects of euthylone to cocaine, methamphetamine, and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)John Templeton, fundador de Footprints Beachside Recovery Center, en Treasure Island, warned consumers of the latter to “not only take extra precautions, but seek help to avoid these drugs completely and avoid making a fatal mistake.
In many of these cases, people thought they were buying one drug, but they were getting another,” Templeton said.
and warned that “all it takes is one bad batch and your life is over”.
Unless you know exactly where these drugs come from, you are gambling with your own life every time you snort, ingest or inject something,” he warned drug users.
According to him CDC report, 77% of euthylone-related deaths “involved fentanyls, cocaine, or methamphetamine illicitly manufactured”.
And while 12% of reported overdose deaths indicated negative MDMA toxicology findings, evidence of pre-overdose use or a history of MDMA use was found among the victims.
We need to be more aware of the threat of these dangerous synthetic drugs and do our part to help our loved ones struggling with addiction.”
In a five-year span, 1.2 million years of life have been lost in the US due to unintentional drug overdose by victims ages 10 to 24, according to a May report published in the journal Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), apostilled.
Founded in 2008, the Pinellas County Footprints Beachside Recovery Center is a “private, holistic substance abuse treatment clinic for adults.”
