The flesh-rotting zombie drug “tranq” was identified in mainstream party drugs, according to a report published Monday.
A series of sources told the New York Post that the drug called “tranq” — an animal sedative called xylazine — is poisoning unsuspecting victims, as it’s being mixed with regular party drugs like cocaine. Roughly 15% of all drugs tested in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division regional laboratory have come back positive.
Tranq is known to cause flesh-eating lesions and psychosis in users, and can put victims into a state of semi-consciousness, the NYP noted. Poisoning and overdose deaths involving tranq in 2021 were 35 times higher than three years prior.
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More than 85% of those drugs tested by the DEA also test positive for fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths across America, the NYP continued.
“Young people can innocently take a pill, not knowing it has fentanyl in it or that it has fentanyl and xylazine,” DEA special agent Frank Tarentino. (RELATED: ‘Take Turns’: New York City Public Health Poster Says Doing Drugs Is Fine If Done Safely)
Tranq is also prevalent on the West Coast, where it has been found in cocaine and heroin. The crisis has forced Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve $30 million to fund the production of naloxone (Narcan), an anti-overdose drug as the drug addiction and mental health crisis ravages the state under his leadership.