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Xylazine, a powerful animal sedative often called "tranq," is frequently added to fentanyl. Some users say the combination gives a longer-lasting high, while also causing severe skin wounds.

Xylazine, a powerful animal sedative often called "tranq," is frequently added to fentanyl. Some users say the combination gives a longer-lasting high, while also causing severe skin wounds.

Xylazine, a powerful animal sedative often called "tranq," is frequently added to fentanyl. Some users say the combination gives a longer-lasting high, while also causing severe skin wounds.

Overdose deaths where tranq was detected have soared in recent years and in April the White House designated the drug an "emerging threat."

The tranquilliser, approved for veterinary use by the US Food and Drug Administration, infiltrated the illegal drugs market in the US, with producers increasingly using it to augment fentanyl - a synthetic opioid 50 times as potent as heroin.

The $414,000 proposal, entitled ‘Encampment Response,’ would roll out in three six-week phases, with the first phase targeting encampments along the Thames River.

(Alaska Beacon) - Alaska to receive $58M, with no plans to report to the public how funds are spent

Tranq also known as xylazine eats up the flesh of the drug users, in severe cases down to the bone

Opioid addict Martin has seen the deadly fentanyl replace heroin as the most prevalent drug in New York.Xylazine is easily accessible on the internet and almost always coupled with fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin.

Opioid addict Martin has seen the deadly fentanyl replace heroin as the most prevalent drug in New York.