Protecting Our Communities from Deadly Drugs

This week, I reintroduced bipartisan legislation to crack down on the deadly fentanyl additive xylazine. The Combating Illicit Xylazine Act would list xylazine as a Schedule III controlled substance, while protecting the drug's legal use by veterinarians, farmers, and ranchers. 

Xylazine, also known as “tranq,” is an easily accessible veterinary tranquilizer that drug traffickers are turning to as a low-cost cutting agent for fentanyl - making the drug more addictive and more deadly. Our country is facing a drug epidemic that has devastated families and communities across America, and it is time for Congress to act. 

I am proud to work with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to protect our communities from the illicit uses of xylazine while protecting its critical purpose in agriculture and veterinary medicine.Read more about the legislation here.