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Other drugs are also affected by this order. Xylazine is increasingly used with opioids and involved in overdose deaths in the United States. It is seen as an emerging threat—a particularly unpleasant one, as the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, noted. The previous Government welcomed and accepted the ACMD’s recommendations; I welcome the fact that the incumbent Government are continuing to categorise xylazine as a class C drug while making note of the legitimate use, as explained by the Minister.