Addiction Recovery Channel: Fentanyl and Xylazine and The Poly-drug Overdose Death Crisis in America
Channel: Town Meeting TV
Date: 17/06/2023

From Ed Baker:

Dr. Joseph D’Orazio, a noted expert, discusses the pharmacology of xylazine, the clinical course and clinical management of overdose, the complications presented by fentanyl/xylazine combination, xylazine wounds and wound care, and the growing prevalence of xylazine in the unregulated drug supply.

Dr. Joseph D'Orazio is an emergency physician, medical toxicologist, and addiction medicine specialist at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He cares for Temple patients in a variety of settings, including the emergency department, an inpatient consultative service for addiction medicine and toxicology, the TRUST Clinic (an office-based opioid treatment program), and Begin the Turn (Temple's low-barrier access street-side medicine program). Dr. D’Orazio is a medical toxicologist for the Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is regarded as a regional expert regarding substance use and substance use disorder treatment in Philadelphia.

4/20/2023

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