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Zombie Drug' Spreads: Skin-Rotting Tranq Grips US
Public health officials are disturbed by its spread and by the horrific wounds it causes on the bodies of users.
Tranq is the common term for xylazine, an animal tranquilizer drug that is now most commonly cut with heroin or fentanyl.
Xylazine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an animal tranquilizer used by vets but is not safe for humans.
Tranq users have found raw wounds erupting on their skin at the injection sites which have rotted the surrounding skin and caused infection, sometimes leading to amputation.
The wounds turn into a crust of dead tissue called eschar which if untreated will see people lose limbs.
Some former addicts have even spoken about seeing people continue to inject the drug into their stumps.
Xylazine killed a record of nearly 107,000 people in the U.S. in 2021.
The U.S Sun spoke to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health about the additional danger of this drug in relation to Narcan.
Narcan or Naloxone is the most commonly used life-saving drug to reverse the effect of an overdose.
The NIDA said: "There are no existing medications for reversing a xylazine overdose."
Philadelphia mayoral candidate David Oh told The U.S. Sun: "We have a bad epidemic in Philadelphia."
The Republican candidate added that the city, especially Kensington has became a "destination" for drug addicts and dealers.
Oh believes the fact that there is no medication to treat a Tranq overdose will not dissuade addicts or dealers.
In fact, he said that when addicts hear that someone died, they will seek out that drug.
The attorney and politician said: "Deadly drugs sell the best... when addicts get high they are in heaven, and when they're not high, they're very unhappy.
"Then they finally inject again and its Shangri-La - it's heaven.
"They awake to a miserable life and a miserable world...so Narcan and saving a life is not what they are looking for - to die in heaven will make them happy."
He added: "They're living for the high....if they hear about a person who died, that's it, they're going for it.
"Death is a big seller, it's a money maker."
The NIDA said: "Repeated use of xylazine can aslo cause painful skin ulcers and abscesses, potentially as a result of reduced skin oxygenation and vasoconstriction of blood vessels.
"Xylazine is one component of the severe current overdose epidemic, and we must work to make treatment for substance use disorders cheaper and easier to obtain than illicit drugs."
Fentanyl has become the leading cause of deaths for adults aged between 18 and 45, the CDC confirmed.
Former White House drug policy advisor Professor Keith Humphreys told The U.S. Sun: "The US has an established population of several million people who are already addicted to opioids.
"This creates a lucrative market for drug traffickers selling blends of opioids with other drugs included."
Xylazine is thought to be 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine, which is why it has taken over at the number one drug in Philadelphia.
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Public health officials are disturbed by its spread and by the horrific wounds it causes on the bodies of users.
Tranq is the common term for xylazine, an animal tranquilizer drug that is now most commonly cut with heroin or fentanyl.
Xylazine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an animal tranquilizer used by vets but is not safe for humans.
Tranq users have found raw wounds erupting on their skin at the injection sites which have rotted the surrounding skin and caused infection, sometimes leading to amputation.
The wounds turn into a crust of dead tissue called eschar which if untreated will see people lose limbs.
Some former addicts have even spoken about seeing people continue to inject the drug into their stumps.
Xylazine killed a record of nearly 107,000 people in the U.S. in 2021.
The U.S Sun spoke to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health about the additional danger of this drug in relation to Narcan.
Narcan or Naloxone is the most commonly used life-saving drug to reverse the effect of an overdose.
The NIDA said: "There are no existing medications for reversing a xylazine overdose."
Philadelphia mayoral candidate David Oh told The U.S. Sun: "We have a bad epidemic in Philadelphia."
The Republican candidate added that the city, especially Kensington has became a "destination" for drug addicts and dealers.
Oh believes the fact that there is no medication to treat a Tranq overdose will not dissuade addicts or dealers.
In fact, he said that when addicts hear that someone died, they will seek out that drug.
The attorney and politician said: "Deadly drugs sell the best... when addicts get high they are in heaven, and when they're not high, they're very unhappy.
"Then they finally inject again and its Shangri-La - it's heaven.
"They awake to a miserable life and a miserable world...so Narcan and saving a life is not what they are looking for - to die in heaven will make them happy."
He added: "They're living for the high....if they hear about a person who died, that's it, they're going for it.
"Death is a big seller, it's a money maker."
The NIDA said: "Repeated use of xylazine can aslo cause painful skin ulcers and abscesses, potentially as a result of reduced skin oxygenation and vasoconstriction of blood vessels.
"Xylazine is one component of the severe current overdose epidemic, and we must work to make treatment for substance use disorders cheaper and easier to obtain than illicit drugs."
Fentanyl has become the leading cause of deaths for adults aged between 18 and 45, the CDC confirmed.
Former White House drug policy advisor Professor Keith Humphreys told The U.S. Sun: "The US has an established population of several million people who are already addicted to opioids.
"This creates a lucrative market for drug traffickers selling blends of opioids with other drugs included."
Xylazine is thought to be 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine, which is why it has taken over at the number one drug in Philadelphia.
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