The US Drug Enforcement Administration has issued an urgent public safety alert regarding the animal tranquilizer xylazine — warning it is now being used as a cheap cutting agent for fentanyl in 48 states.
The medication — known on the street as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for veterinary use. However, it is not safe for human use as it causes flesh-rotting sores and respiratory depression.
Often cut with heroin, dealers are now mixing it with fentanyl as an inexpensive way to make highs last longer amid the “disgraceful” opioid epidemic killing up to 300 Americans per day.
Anne Milgram, a DEA Administrator said the following in her “widespread threat” alert.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier… DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 of 50 states.”
Xylazine’s spread has been rapid and extreme and those who overdose on xylazine do not respond Narcan, which is the most common overdose-reversal treatment, according to an FDA warning.
Very sad. pic.twitter.com/euzghcApDe
— Clown World
(@ClownWorld_) March 20, 2023
“Flesh will rot off your body” I met a homeless meth user that is seeing tranq the horse tranquilizer cut in almost all drugs now. He heard of a lady with her bone exposed on her arm due the unintended tranq use. He personally has had mysterious sores appearing all over his body pic.twitter.com/OWrUWbdNNV
— Kevin Dahlgren (@kevinvdahlgren) March 2, 2023
Flesh-rotting ‘tranq’ drug spreads to 48 states, cut with fentanyl: urgent DEA alert https://t.co/esXRyBmjwC pic.twitter.com/dit6QMQzqh
— New York Post (@nypost) March 22, 2023
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