Workers with the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force, set up a table near Roosevelt Road and South Albany Avenue on the West Side to provide people with Narcan Nasal Spray, 0.4mg/ml of Naloxone and syringes to treat drug overdoses, Thursday morning, Sept. 23, 2021.
Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
Workers with the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force, set up a table near Roosevelt Road and South Albany Avenue on the West Side to provide people with Narcan Nasal Spray, 0.4mg/ml of Naloxone and syringes to treat drug overdoses, Thursday morning, Sept. 23, 2021.
Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times

Public health and drug enforcement officials are raising alarms about a veterinary tranquilizer known as Xylazine.

Reset hears how the substance is impacting the opioid epidemic, what health and community organizers are doing to address the ongoing crisis, and why Medicaid recipients are often missing out on essential drug treatment.

GUESTS: Matt Kiefer, digital editor for WBEZ

Dr. David Ansell, professor of medicine at Rush University Medical Center and author of The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

Lindsay Allen, health economist and assistant professor in Northwest, Vauna Hernandez, executive director of Phoenix House.

Workers with the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force, set up a table near Roosevelt Road and South Albany Avenue on the West Side to provide people with Narcan Nasal Spray, 0.4mg/ml of Naloxone and syringes to treat drug overdoses, Thursday morning, Sept. 23, 2021.
Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times
Workers with the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force, set up a table near Roosevelt Road and South Albany Avenue on the West Side to provide people with Narcan Nasal Spray, 0.4mg/ml of Naloxone and syringes to treat drug overdoses, Thursday morning, Sept. 23, 2021.
Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times

Public health and drug enforcement officials are raising alarms about a veterinary tranquilizer known as Xylazine.

Reset hears how the substance is impacting the opioid epidemic, what health and community organizers are doing to address the ongoing crisis, and why Medicaid recipients are often missing out on essential drug treatment.

GUESTS: Matt Kiefer, digital editor for WBEZ

Dr. David Ansell, professor of medicine at Rush University Medical Center and author of The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

Lindsay Allen, health economist and assistant professor in Northwest, Vauna Hernandez, executive director of Phoenix House.