Xylazine — an animal tranquilizer known on the street as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is being cut with other drugs, including heroin and fentanyl.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Anne Milgram said in a Tracey McCann, 39, is one of thousands of Americans who have become inadvertently hooked on xylazine in recent years.
“I saw no other way to cope,” McCann confessed, saying she started using heroin and fentanyl in a bid to numb her ongoing pain. McCann didn’t realize the animal tranquilizer was being cut into the drugs until she started developing bruises and sores on her body several months later. “She had same bruises and blackened skin as me,” she noted, saying the woman told her the side effects were due in part to a meat tenderizer cut with the drugs.“I did a blood test and was septic and needed an immediate blood transfusion,” she dramatically declared. “Lots of people I knew had gone septic from the drug too. I could tell the doctor and nurse were judging me like I was a worthless junkie. I ripped the IV drip out and left the hospital.
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