Omeid Heidari, Olivia K Sugarman, Abigail K Winiker, Sabrina Gattine, Vivian Flanagan, Roham Razaghi, Brendan K Saloner
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Personal Experiences With Xylazine and Behavior Change: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Reddit Posts.
Objectives: Xylazine is a rapidly spreading adulterant in the United States' drug supply and is increasingly associated with overdoses and severe wounds, but there is a dearth of information about the clinical presentation or means of treatment for human xylazine exposure. The objective of this study was to explore personal attitudes about xylazine in the drug supply and experiences with xylazine-related use among people who reported using drugs and contributed content to social media site Reddit.
Methods: To conduct a retrospective qualitative content analysis, the study team extracted all posts and comments from Reddit, which mentioned the terms "xylazine" or "tranq." Content was extracted from 10 Reddit forums, or subreddits, specific to drug use, and included content created on or before the extraction date of January 2023. In total, 3284 posts were identified and 1803 were qualitatively coded using an inductive approach until meaning saturation was reached.
Results: Three themes emerged across comments and posts: (1) personal experiences with xylazine, including a negative impact on overdose, withdrawal, and wounds; (2) behavior changes in response to xylazine in the drug supply, including devising and sharing new harm reduction and detection tips, and reducing or abstaining from drug use altogether; (3) a perceived lack of treatment options for xylazine withdrawal and information sharing to help others self-treat withdrawal symptoms, most often with clonidine.
Conclusions: This study of people who reported using drugs with xylazine provides new insights into how xylazine is perceived, possible treatment modalities, and potential clinical research approaches.
期刊介绍:
The mission of Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, is to promote excellence in the practice of addiction medicine and in clinical research as well as to support Addiction Medicine as a mainstream medical sub-specialty.
Under the guidance of an esteemed Editorial Board, peer-reviewed articles published in the Journal focus on developments in addiction medicine as well as on treatment innovations and ethical, economic, forensic, and social topics including:
•addiction and substance use in pregnancy
•adolescent addiction and at-risk use
•the drug-exposed neonate
•pharmacology
•all psychoactive substances relevant to addiction, including alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, marijuana, opioids, stimulants and other prescription and illicit substances
•diagnosis
•neuroimaging techniques
•treatment of special populations
•treatment, early intervention and prevention of alcohol and drug use disorders
•methodological issues in addiction research
•pain and addiction, prescription drug use disorder
•co-occurring addiction, medical and psychiatric disorders
•pathological gambling disorder, sexual and other behavioral addictions
•pathophysiology of addiction
•behavioral and pharmacological treatments
•issues in graduate medical education
•recovery
•health services delivery
•ethical, legal and liability issues in addiction medicine practice
•drug testing
•self- and mutual-help.