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Zombie drug 'tranq' hits streets of West Virginia


DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine

Xylazine, also known as “Tranq,” is a powerful sedative that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for veterinary use. “Xylazine is making the ...

Zombie drug 'tranq' hits streets of West Virginia - Dominion Post

CHARLESTON — U.S. Attorney Bill Ihlenfeld says he fears a powerful drug that's turning fentanyl addicts into “zombies” will lead to more ...

'Tranq' hitting West Virginia, where drug death rate already tops US

The state with the worst drug overdose crisis is facing new challenges from the so-called "zombie drug" xylazine.

Fentanyl pipeline into the U.S. may be drying up - NPR

Street fentanyl has long been viewed as unstoppable. Now many experts say the supply of the deadly synthetic opioid is suddenly drying up in ...

States, Cities Scramble to Combat Animal 'Tranq' in Street Drugs

Xylazine, a large-animal tranquilizer not approved for human use, started showing up routinely in the drug supply in 2019, but didn't take off ...

Flesh-eating 'zombie drug' saturating Los Angeles streets - KTLA

The drug can be cooked down into a powder form and mixed with illicit opioids such as heroin and fentanyl or pressed into counterfeit pills or ...

First came fentanyl. Now this state is counting the casualties from ...

But West Virginia, which remains ground zero in the American opioid crisis, with nearly twice as many overdose deaths per capita as its nearest ...

Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh ...

A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so ...

The Ravages of Tranq Dope - Visa pour l'image

It all started in 1996 with a pharmaceutical company promising pain relief. Three decades, and more than 650,000 deaths later, the opioid ...

Xylazine | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Xylazine, or “tranq,” is a veterinary sedative found in some illicit drugs and is linked to overdose and other issues.

New street drug 'tranq dope,' rots skin, turns humans into 'zombies'

An emerging street drug dubbed "tranq dope" has sparked serious new health concerns as users have reportedly seen their own skin rot as a side effect.

AGs throw support behind bill cracking down on 'zombie drug'

A bill that would schedule illicit xylazine, which is also known as “tranq” or the “zombie drug” is gaining support from a bipartisan coalition of attorneys ...

Huntington: America's overdose capital where former addicts are ...

Sky's Mark Stone, who has reported extensively on the opioid crisis across the United States, travelled to the "overdose capital of America" ...

West Virginia is becoming epicenter of 'deadliest drug threat ...

' But the Mountain State is already facing an opioid epidemic, with its drug overdose death rate per 100,000 people the highest in the nation, ...

Xylazine Archives - Dominion Post

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What is tranq, the skin-rotting 'zombie' drug? | Fortune Well

Xylazine is an animal tranquilizer that goes by the street name tranq and is a common additive to illicit drugs like fentanyl, heroin, and ...

New 'zombie drug' causing overdoses across US - NewsNation

Officials are sounding the alarm over a new so-called “zombie drug,” 100 times more potent than xylazine, causing overdose deaths in nine states across the ...

Warnings of new deadly chemical in street drug supply - NPR

Public health officials say Mexican cartels and drug gangs inside the US are mixing a dangerous chemical sedative called medetomidine into fentanyl and other ...

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