Animal tranquilizer mixed w/ fentanyl brings new horror to opioid epidemic.
Xylazine aka ‘tranq’ is strong enough to sedate a horse & so toxic that it eats away at users’ flesh pic.twitter.com/kem9BH65fc
— Doochebag (@MalcolmRenoldz) February 22, 2023
I’m about to get me some of this Xylazine.
I’ve got really nice skin – too nice.
I’d look more hardcore if some of it rotted off.
Xylazine — otherwise known as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is wreaking havoc in major cities across the country with its devastating effects: It can literally rot the user’s skin.
The substance, which seemed to first appear in Philadelphia before migrating west to San Francisco and Los Angeles, was used for cutting heroin, but, most recently, it has been discovered in fentanyl and other illicit drugs.
While approved by the Food and Drug Administration for veterinary use, xylazine, a non-opioid, is not safe for humans, and those who overdose on the drug do not respond to naloxone, or Narcan, the most common overdose reversal treatment.
Xylazine causes sedative-like symptoms, such as excessive sleepiness and respiratory depression, as well as raw wounds that can become severe and spread rapidly with repeated exposure. The crusty ulcerations, which can become dead skin called eschar, can result in amputation if left untreated.
Because it is not listed as a controlled substance for animals or humans, “tranq” lands in a confusing and horrifying gray area — and hospitals rarely test for it with routine toxicology screenings.
Last month, one Philly user suddenly developed xylazine-specific wounds near her opioid injection sites.
“I’d wake up in the morning crying because my arms were dying,” Tracey McCann, 39, told the New York Times.
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“Tranq is basically zombifying people’s bodies,” Sam, 28, told Sky News. “Until nine months ago, I never had wounds. Now, there are holes in my legs and feet.”
Americans are so goofy.
They all hate their existence and just want to get high on drugs and die.
Maybe try figuring out why you hate your existence and then do something about it, huh, you fat retards?
Or just take the skin-rotting drug.
I really don’t care.
Xylazine, also known as “tranq,” “tranq dope” & “zombie drug”, is the new substance in town that has deadly effects The drug has sedative-like symptoms extreme sleepiness, respiratory depression characterize the use of the substance leading to the videos of people unable to stand https://t.co/B1vImgNu4M
— Tanya Gomez (@TanyaGomez7) February 22, 2023
On the streets of Philadelphia – the ground zero of America’s opioid crisis – a new street drug is baffling doctors.
It’s called Xylazine or Tranq – and it’s causing horrific wounds on the bodies of those who use it.@Stone_SkyNews reports 👇https://t.co/JmWwKSrRRb pic.twitter.com/egCV5QVbDy
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 16, 2023
Oh my sweet Jesus 😳
Flesh-eating drug ‘tranq’ meant for animals now linked to thousands of heroin/fentanyl ODs. Found in 91% of heroin in Philadelphia. https://t.co/1cBmlod9mz
#fentanyl #Tranq #xylazine #Heroin #DrugAddiction #AmericaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/wV1i7e8ZOH— Z La Luna (@LauraLaLuna1) February 18, 2023