Animal sedative ‘zombie drug’ flooding opioid market: What you need to know

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The animal sedative xylazine is flooding the illegal opioid market causing overdose, death and worse.

LOS ANGELESXylazine, an animal sedative drug, is currently flooding the illicit opioid market, resulting in overdoses and deaths.

To those under the thumb of opioid addiction, xylazine seems like an efficient alternative, but according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, taking xylazine can result in blurred vision, disorientation, drowsiness, staggering, coma, bradycardia, respiratory depression, hypotension, miosis, and hyperglycemia.xylazine the "zombie drug" because users who report taking the drug say they’ve experienced side effects akin to a flesh-eating disease.

When the FDA first reported its concern over xylazine, it was not yet clear how widespread its use was. According to a report from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, xylazine — also known by its street name "tranq" — was found in over 90 percent of dope samples tested in the agency’s labs.

In a separate study published in June 2022, xylazine was detected in the drug supply of 36 states and the District of Columbia.

 

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But remember, we must all stick to the narrative, this is a housing crisis

What does even worse than death even mean

DAR1797 Start covering the real problem your crooked president and a broken borders!! Stop covering for this corrupt president!

Sorry don’t care this is Seattle’s fault

How are these people learning about this like how do they know how to get it and how do they know what it’s gonna do there’s more to the story

Oh well. RIP for those that use these killer drugs. Thinning the herd.

The FBI is pushing this stuff into the communities. Scumbags.

Worse than death!? Does the shit make you vote for democrats too?

Curious what you think 'and worse' could be.

Lol… too bad! Millennials and GenX loser vagrants better clean up, get a job and become productive. zombienation

Darwin just weeding them out.

At what point is a death equilibrium reached? Drugs too strong, no customers.

so what's the problem , as long as the results are positive

Xylazine has been in the Kenzo dope for at least 5 years. I'm not sure why the media is just picking it up now all of sudden.

Interesting headline. What exactly is worse than death?

What's worse than overdose and death

What could be worse than death? Does it cause eternal suffering?

It’s not illegal. It’s criminalized. And nothing’s going to change until that changes.

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