Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is calling for the immediate ban of “Designer Xanax.”
According to a release from Attorney General Coleman’s office, there have been dozens of overdose deaths in the Commonwealth involving the drug called bromazolam.
According to Coleman’s office, bromazolam is being passed off as prescription pills commonly used to treat conditions such as anxiety disorders, insomnia and seizures. However, it is being sold illicitly on the streets and online. It is both highly potent and even lethal.
The Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force contacted detectives with the Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigation about a troubling increase in these pills flooding the state.
In a letter to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Steven Stack, Attorney General Coleman urged Cabinet for Health and Family Service to use its authority to immediately schedule the drug, giving more power to law enforcement to get it off the streets.
Additionally, his office also reached out to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule bromazolam at the federal level.
Source: WAVE
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