New drug hits a dozen Democrat-ruled states; ER visits rise 300% for *withdrawal symptoms*!

Start here:  The NY Times is a leftist, Democrat-fellating rag.  If you disagree, you're a Leftist and thus it's pointless to try to have a rational discussion, so stop reading.

Second: The Left and the Dem party love deadly, addictive, illegal drugs, and addicts.  Some may claim this isn't true--and certainly every state has some illegal drug use.  But the proof is that the sale and use of dangerous, deadly, addictive drugs absolutely flourishes in Democrat-ruled cities and states:  Philly, NYC, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Chitcongo, Atlanta, Baltimore, most of New Jersey, many others. 

It flourishes becauses corrupt Democrat politicians in those cities and states tolerate it.  The reasons for this are never discussed, and we'll leave those for another time. 

So if the Democrat-fellating NY Times admits there's a problem with a new drug in a Dem-ruled city and state, that's called an "admission against interest," and because it IS against the admitter's interest the law gives it extra weight as being true. 

SO...two days ago (Dec 15, 2025) the Times ran a long piece on a new drug that appeared in Philly and other Dem-ruled shitholes in the middle of 2024.  And in the past year its use has exploded to a dozen other Dem-ruled states. 

It's called medetomidine and it's a large-animal tranquilizer--a relative of xylazine (street name "tranq") but about 200 times more powerful per gram.  Both are often mixed with fentanyl.  The federal government hasn't declared either xylazine or medetomidine to be a controlled substance, so it's not a crime to be caught with either.  Convenient, eh?

The reason sales of medetomidine have exploded so fast is that it costs less than xylazine to get the knockout dose.  And as everyone knows, lower costs mean higher sales and more profits.  Ahhh...

Philly regularly submits samples of seized drugs for testing, and medetomidine has now been found in 90 percent of seized street drugs in that city. 

But the real kicker for medetomidine is that withdrawal symptoms are reportedly really painful--so terrible that the user wants to get back on it to make the pain go away.  The effects of withdrawal are so awful that users go to hospital emergency rooms.  In 2023 Philly reported about 2,800 ER visits for withdrawal symptoms, but in the first 9 months of this year there were 7,250.  For the full year they expect ER visits for withdrawal to be three TIMES higher than two years ago, with most of those being for medetomidine.

And these admissions are just for withdrawal symptoms:  super-high heart rate and blood pressure.

The Times says that immediately after snorting, injecting or smoking medetomidine,  users go unconscious and collapse.  There's no mention of any feeling of euphoria, no "high," just out like a light.  And interestingly, even though the new drug blocks nerves in the central nervous system, the antidote for fentanyl and opioid overdose--"Narcan"--doesn't work, because the new drug's bio mechanism is different.

Not sure why it's addictive if there's no euphoria, but then much of what druggies do to get high doesn't seem rational by normal standards.  In fact druggies seem pretty crazy--as Nick Reiner's parents learned.

So the huge increase in hospital admissions (after ER visits for withdrawal symptoms) has Philly hospitals seeing a huge increase in the cost of treating withdrawal symptoms from the new drug.  And because users are so addicted, a week after they're released they're back in the ER and hospital again.  And again.  

So what would you guess the city's Democrat rulers are doing to fix this problem?  Rational leaders would be pushing to pass a law to mandate executing drug sellers.  But Democrats are going the other direction, handing out more "safe drug injection" works: syringes, crack pipes and the like.  Of course druggies don't need anything to ingest the drug cuz' it can simply be snorted.  No needles or crack pipes needed make it a drug-dealer's dream drug.

You might think that the non-addicted citizens of Philly would get tired of this and vote the Dem pols who refuse to crack down on drug sales out of office.  But of course that never happens: The population of the city is 70% Democrat, and even if conservatives had a small majority, the Dem Machine is too powerful.

So returning to the Times piece: The reporter didn't suggest any solutions, because Dems won't support any policy that might actually work.  Instead they use NGO's--funded by city, state and federal taxpayers--to give drug addicts syringes and crack pipes so they can get high on other drugs that don't have the painful withdrawal symptoms.  But the druggies don't want that.  The Times story quotes several users who say they don't want to go to rehab.  

What do you do with people like that?  Dems shrug: Let's keep using taxpayer dollars to keep 'em alive.  Maybe  some of 'em will become doctors or astrophysicists.  You bet, sparky.   

It's crazy.  But unless you live in Philly, you don't get any say in the policy.  You just have to pay for it, thru Medicaid and a dozen other federal programs.  And even if conservatives ever won the mayor and a majority of the city council, Chuck Schumer's senate Democrats will use the filibuster, and leftist judges their DECREES, to prevent the federal government from cutting Medicaid to Dem-ruled states even when they do absolutely nothing to cut drug use.  So Dems win again.  Perfect.

In fact congressional Democrats are now muttering about impeaching Trump for doing the only thing that seems likely to reduce the supply of these drugs: blowing up drug boats. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/health/medetomidine-withdrawal-symptoms-treatment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.808.FgB3.XVb6SMUXg6qb&smid=url-share