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Thousands of Heroin and Fentanyl Overdoses Linked to Animal Tranquilizer “Tranq”

by Iesha
September 27, 2022
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In places like Philadelphia, Delaware, and Michigan, the flesh-eating animal tranquilizer xylazine has been blamed for thousands of drug overdoses as it floods the heroin and fentanyl supply market.
According to the peer-reviewed journal Science Direct, the sedative, often known as “tranq,” is currently present in 91% of Philadelphia’s heroin and fentanyl supplies.
It was also reported last week that overdoses in Delaware were also increasing.
Detroit Free Press reported Friday that fatalities from the drug, often used on horses to relax and anesthetize, increased 86.8% from 2019 to 2020.
Fears of its spread to the west have increased in the past two years since it has been found in half of the opioid deaths in the Ann Arbor area, the report said.

According to federal officials, xylazine was also a factor in 10% of drug overdose deaths in Connecticut the year before and 19% of all overdose deaths in Maryland in 2021.

Substance-abuse field epidemiologist, Jen Shinefeld, said that xylazine usage results in ulcers and sores on users’ bodies, which significantly increases the risk of soft-tissue infections, bone disease, and amputations.

Additionally, she said, the drug decreases blood flow and renders the user unconscious, weakening the body’s capacity to recover. Although tranq causes overdoses, it is not an opioid; so naloxone cannot stop its effects.

“This is more like tissue death. This is black, necrotic tissue destruction,” said UCLA researcher Joseph Friedman. “And the necrotic tissue doesn’t necessarily develop at the site where the drug was injected. There’s evidence it can appear anywhere on the body.”

One drug user, Sam Brennan, 28, said, “It’s something I’ve never seen before anywhere else. People all over the place, sticking needles anywhere they possibly can, passed out. Philly’s going under from tranq.”

Brennan injected the medicine directly into a vein in her neck when she first started using it, which resulted in a black sore. Now, seeking its euphoric effects, she injects it directly into her muscle.

She said, “It’s a way more intense sickness than fentanyl. … You feel like you’re literally going to die.”

Since the turn of the century, the drug, known as “anestesia de Caballo” or “horse tranquilizer,” has been frequently abused in Puerto Rico.

The recent rise in usage in the US can be attributed to a disruption in the supply of fentanyl, which China, its primary producer, prohibited in 2019 in response to US pressure.

“When fentanyl is not available, the cuts get heavy with xylazine,” Shinefeld said. “We’ll have someone that’ll do a bag that’s 23 parts xylazine to one part fentanyl, and we’ll have 15 people [overdose] on one corner.”

 

 

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