Drug dealers are selling powders and pills that contain fentanyl, but now a dangerous animal tranquilizer is being added to the mix. Xylazine in humans can cause open wounds, amputations and even death.
It’s been almost two years since 29-year-old Tommy Krausmann died from a drug poisoning. His parents Laura and Tom said the coroner found fentanyl in his system and also something called xylazine."I also know that he thought he was getting heroin, probably with some fentanyl in it. He had no idea of anything called xylazine," Laura said.Tom says even the coroner admittedly had to research the drug when it came back on a toxicology report.
In Cook County, it was detected in about 100 drug poisonings, a number that is climbing over the past three years. And in Lake County, there were two xylazine-related deaths last year, but seven already this year. Xylazine, or tranq as it’s called on the street, has been found mixed with cocaine or meth, but most commonly combined with fentanyl.Fry says it makes the high last longer and for illicit drug producers, they can stretch the supply.
The open sores are so bad they can result in amputation. This is being seen in Philadelphia, ground zero for tranq. "Because we do see xylazine often mixed with opioids and by administering Narcan, the effects of decreased breathing can be reversed," Jasmin said.
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