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Xylazine is a drug that is used for sedation anesthesia muscle relaxation and analgesia in animals such as horses cattle and other non-human mammals. An analogue of clonidine it is an agonist at the α2 class of adrenergic receptor. Xylazine has recently emerged as a recreational drug especially in Puerto Rico.As with other α2 agonists adverse effects include bradycardia conduction disturbances and myocardial depression.
