LA: Flesh-Eating “Zombie Drug” on the Rise, “Gruesomely Disfiguring People”


I’ve said it before: for someone who is not a Christian, I understand the calculus of becoming a drug addict in the modern world. If you don’t believe in God, there is really nothing to live for, no meaning in anything, so why not just live as a drug addict on the streets of California?

But if you’re going to do that – why not do fentanyl like a normal person?

Why do a flesh-eating zombie drug?

New York Post:

Los Angeles officials are sounding the alarm over the “concerning” spread of a “zombie drug” that can have gruesome effects on addicts including eating away at their flesh.

Local street drug “tranq” — also known as animal tranquilizer xylazine — can lead to horrifying results when mixed with other illegal drugs like heroin and fentanyl.

LA authorities are now in a race to track it as it rapidly rises in use and can lead to skin and muscle rotting away, according to reports.

It’s really gruesomely disfiguring people,” Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Bill Bodner told KTLA.

“It’s much more likely to stop someone from breathing and the things that come along with xylazine, it’s a vasoconstrictor. So when you’re injecting it, it’s actually reducing the blood circulation.”

Addiction expert Cary Quashen said he’s “never seen anything like what we’re dealing with right now.”

I suppose it’s dumb to ask why this would be happening.

This is the United Snakes.

Of course it’s happening.