Flesh-rotting ‘tranq’ drug spreads to 48 states, cut with fentanyl

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The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued an urgent public safety alert regarding the animal tranquilizer xylazine — warning it is now being used as a cheap cutting agent for fentanyl in 48 states.

The medication — known on the street as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for veterinary use. However, it is not safe for human consumption as it causes flesh-rotting sores and respiratory depression.

Often cut with heroin, dealers are now mixing it with fentanyl as an inexpensive way to make highs last longer amid the “disgraceful” opioid epidemic killing up to 300 Americans per day.

“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” agency administrator Anne Milgram said in the “widespread threat” alert. “DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 of 50 states.”

The shocking statistic is sure to alarm Americans, as there has been little reporting about the rapid spread of the dangerous drug.

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