Horor Wabah Narkoba Zombie, Begini Penampakan Warga AS Korban Overdosis Obat

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/03/26: U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine and mentions letter issued by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) alerting of threat as fentanyl is mixed with Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Amerika Serikat (AS) dihebohkan dengan wabah narkoba 'zombie'. Ini terjadi karena banyak pengguna narkoba memakai obat jenis xylazine atau tranq. Obat yang sebenarnya digunakan untuk menenangkan hewan ini dapat berbahaya jika dicampur dengan jenis narkoba lain, seperti heroin, kokain, dan fentanil. (Foto: Pacific Press/LightRocket via Ge/Pacific Press)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Used needles are seen on the street during a city sweep of a homeless encampment, September 22, 2022 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Pemerintah AS menetapkan kombinasi obat ini sebagai ancaman baru karena dapat berakibat fatal. Pihak White House Official of National Drug Control Policy menyampaikan kasus overdosis dan kematian di seluruh AS terus mengalami peningkatan. (Foto: Corbis via Getty Images/Andrew Lichtenstein)

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - MAY 05: Medics with the Vancouver Fire Rescue Services attend to a man who overdosed on drugs in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighborhood on Thursday, May 5, 2022 in Vancouver, British Columbia. A by stander witnessed the man collapse, then gave him two injections of Naloxone, a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, and sent another person to get an oxygen tank from a supervised consumption site. Supervised consumption sites in the DTES give addicts who use fentanyl, opioids, crystal methamphetamine and other drugs a place to use and get harm reduction supplies; clean syringes, alcohol swabs, sterile water, tourniquets, spoons and filters. On April 14, 2016, provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall declared a public health emergency under the Public Health Act due to the significant rise in opioid-related overdose deaths reported in B.C. since the beginning of 2016. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Divisi Lapangan DEA LA telah menyita campuran xylazine dan fentanil di 48 dari 50 negara bagian. Penggunaan obat ini naik hingga 750 persen di barat dan 500 persen di Midwest. Selama 2020 dan 2021, ada lonjakan kematian hingga 1.000 persen di AS bagian selatan. (Foto: Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag/Gary Coronado)

Di sebuah gang kecil di Los Angeles yang kotor, penuh tunawisma pecandu fentanil yang sakau. Beberapa dari mereka bahkan tewas karena overdosis.

Menurut United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), fentanil adalah opioid sintetik yang disetujui oleh Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sebagai obat pereda nyeri dan anestesi. Fentanil 100 kali lebih kuat dari morfin dan 50 kali lebih kuat dari heroin sebagai analgesik. (Foto: The Washington Post via Getty Im/The Washington Post)

Tingkat kematian overdosis fentanil atau mencampurkannya dengan obat lain dilaporkan CDC meningkat dari 5,7 per 100 ribu orang pada 2016 menjadi 21,6 per 100 ribu pada 2021. Kematian terkait fentanil meningkat 55 persen pada 2019-2020 dan 24,1 persen selama 2020-2021. (Foto: The Washington Post via Getty Im/The Washington Post)

SAN DIEGO, CA - NOVEMBER 10: Ed Byrne, Homeland Security Investigations Agent, right, and Lt. Ken Impellizeri of San Diego Police, at the scene of a fatal overdosed of a 39 years old woman on fentanyl as they look for evidence in San Diego, California, Thursday, November 10, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Selain fentanil, CDC juga melaporkan kematian akibat overdosis metamfetamin juga meningkat selama 2016-2021. Di antara tahun tersebut pula, kematian overdosis akibat kokain turut melonjak sedangkan kematian yang melibatkan heroin dan oksikodon menurun. (Foto: The Washington Post via Getty Im/The Washington Post)

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Horor Wabah Narkoba Zombie, Begini Penampakan Warga AS Korban Overdosis Obat