I have started and deleted this post more times than I can count because there are no words that make this make sense. As Counsellors, we know what Domestic Violence is, in fact many of us have experienced it in one way or another whether that be with our clients or ourselves. Yesterday, my friend Mandy Fackler was murdered in a heinous act of Domestic Violence. She was a mother. A friend. A professional. A woman with plans, people who loved her, children who needed her, and an entire life that should still be happening today. And now she is gone because of domestic violence. Mandy was also an absolute force. We bonded over our mutual love of freedom, liberty, guns, and our very strong opinions about all three. That woman could spend the entire day out shooting and somehow clean herself up and be at the Governor's Mansion that night and tucking the babies in for bedtime. That was Mandy. She could hold her own anywhere, with anyone. She was strong, outspoken, fiercely independent, passionate about what she believed in, and unapologetically herself. She was the kind of woman you noticed when she walked into a room. She was a power to be reckoned with. And maybe that is part of what makes this so incredibly difficult to process. Because domestic violence does not only happen to women who appear powerless. A woman can be strong as hell and still be a victim. She can be intelligent, successful, independent, capable, armed, politically connected, deeply loved, and completely able to take care of herself in every other area of her life and still be harmed by someone she trusted. Strength does not make someone immune to domestic violence. Mandy had previously believed there was something worth saving in this relationship. Earlier this year she publicly wrote about believing they might be able to grow together instead of apart. She wanted harmony for her family. She believed in another chance.

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I was just scrolling social media because there’s a huge storm outside and I’m trying to have a restful afternoon when I came across the post below. I gasped, loudly. So much so that my dog came in to check if I was OK.. What’s your first reaction when you see this?

There’s a drug showing up in fentanyl supply that most people haven’t heard of yet. It’s called medetomidine -street name “rhino tranq”. It’s a veterinary tranquilizer, 100 to 200 times more potent than xylazine which had previously caused havoc. It’s been linked to four overdose deaths in California so far. It doesn’t respond to naloxone. Let me say that again. Narcan doesn’t reverse it. In Philadelphia, it went from appearing in 29% of the drug supply in May 2024 to 87% by November. Xylazine dropped from 97% to 42% in the same period one dangerous adulterant was replaced by another almost overnight. The pattern is now reaching across North America. Here’s what concerns me as an Addiction Expert: Most treatment programs are still building their protocols around fentanyl and xylazine. The drug supply is already moved past that. Patients are showing up with substances in their systems that standard drug tests can’t even detect. Withdrawal from medetomidine can require ICU level care, and the clinical teams treating these patients may not know what they’re dealing with until it’s too late. Meanwhile, national overdose deaths are declining for the first time in years, down almost 19% according to the latest CDC data. That’s genuinely good news, but it’s masking what’s happening underneath: the drugs on the street are getting more complex and more unpredictable and harder to treat. And this isn’t even considering the novel potent opioids,such as those in the nitazine family. The crisis isn’t ending -it’s evolving. The treatment programs that will save the most lives in 2026 are the ones updating their protocols as fast as the drug supply is changing. Reminder: This does NOT respond to Naloxone.

Crystal, THANK YOU 🙏 so much for all you do.