NYP:
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. MORE. h/t SNS.
I’m amused to see the reference “found in fentanyl.”. So we’ve finally found something worse than fentanyl?
They are broadcasting this as a warning but the higher highs are exactly what the druggies are longing for, dangerous side effects be damned.
…this is used in concert with Fentanyl to “fix” one of its “flaws” from a user perspective: that Fentanyl is relatively short acting. Apparently some users believe that the animal tranquilizer keeps the buzz going after the Fentanyl kicks it off, and maybe it does, provided you don’t die immediately and don’t mind suppurating nonhealing wounds that become gangrenous and sometimes necessitate amputation.
Here’s a more clinical take on it. You can scroll right past the registration request and keep reading.
ht tps://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/102915
…You can still use Narcan to ameliorate the Fentanyl, but they may not wake up because of the Xylazine. They may start spontaneous respirations at that point, but since Narcan is opioid specific, it is generally hard to tell if it worked or not on people mixing their pleasures or someone who isn’t having a drug issue at all.
And there’s no test strips for it, so you don’t know if you have it or not.
…and then there’s increasingly weird “harm reduction” strategies like this.
ht tps://neverusealone.com/
…apparently, a user calls this and stays on the phone as they take drugs. If the line goes dead, they assume the person did too and call 911.
This seems a bit over the line as far as “helping” and “encoraging” goes. Users are lonely and incentivising them with a caring voice ONLY when using seems somewhat counterproductive.
…also, not sure what kind of folks answer the phones, but seems to me talking to addicts is like working in a nursing home.
Don’t get too attached.
What’s that saying about stupid games and stupid prizes? Sounds like a self-correcting problem to me.
Makes being a druggie seem like such a glamorous life style, don’t it?
“ A Drug That Makes You Rot and Turn Into A Zombie”
I thought this was going to be about liberalism.
Thus begins the zombie apocalypse.
I’m all for anything that reduces the number of Democrat voters.
Sponsored by your overlords at the WEF. Death by any means dovetails nicely with their agenda.
In other words, what’s the problem?
@RickeyG: All it does is reduce the number of live Democrat voters.
Reminds of the Krokadihla drug they invented
in Russia awhile back.Rots you from the inside out.
I hope I never become a zombie…I can’t take all that WALKING!
Reading on social media for our county, ODing is a common occurrence. Sometimes they pull through and sometimes they’re a goner. If that drug gets here and no doubt it will, the morgue is the final stop. More off the streets permanently. Feral human animals.
Somebody slip Pedo Peter some.
Liberalism is at the core of this societal moral rot and decay. Tranq (and other vices) just provide the physical manifestations.
Don’t worry. We’ve got a cure for that….