<p>A cheap, flesh-rotting horse tranquilizer that is flooding into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drugs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal drug market</a> in the U.S. has the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) alarmed.</p>
<p>Xylazine, called &#8220;tranq&#8221; on the street, is mass-manufactured in China and has recently proliferated on the streets of San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York.</p>
<p>The &#8220;zombie drug&#8221; causes skin lesions that look like flesh is being eaten off, sometimes down to the bone, and can slow a person’s heart and breathing until they stop, leaving users catatonic or dead.</p>
<p>Drug dealers frequently mix Xylazine with fentanyl to prolong the high, creating a potentially deadly cocktail, but &#8220;tranq&#8221; is often mixed with other drugs like meth and cocaine as well.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The DEA said Xylazine is making an already deadly drug crisis even more dangerous.</p>
<p>“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” <a href="https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-reports-widespread-threat-fentanyl-mixed-xylazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> DEA Administrator Anne Milgram in a public safety alert.</p>
<p>Milgram said the DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 states.</p>
<p>In 2022, the DEA found xylazine in about 23% of the fentanyl powder and 7% of the fentanyl pills seized by the agency.</p>
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<p>Users face a higher risk of fatally overdosing when fentanyl is mixed with &#8220;tranq,&#8221; the DEA said.</p>
<p>&#8220;People who inject drug mixtures containing xylazine also can develop severe wounds, including necrosis—the rotting of human tissue—that may lead to amputation,&#8221; the DEA said.</p>
<p>In the three and a half years from January 2019 to June 2022, the number of fentanyl deaths each month that involved xylazine spiked from about 2.9% to 10.9% in 20 states and the District of Columbia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7226a4.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in June.</p>
<p>Narcan, the emergency opioid reverse medicine, does not work on &#8220;tranq&#8221; since xylazine is not an opioid. The DEA still recommends administering Narcan in an overdose situation in case they have ingested other drugs.</p>
<p>Routine toxicology screens do not detect xylazine either, <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-alerts-health-care-professionals-risks-patients-exposed-xylazine-illicit-drugs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s (FDA) November alert to healthcare professionals about xylazine.</p>
<p>&#8220;Xylazine is not safe for use in humans and may result in serious and life-threatening side effects that appear to be similar to those commonly associated with opioid use, making it difficult to distinguish opioid overdoses from xylazine exposure,&#8221; the FDA said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tranq&#8221; is also not currently a federally controlled substance, making it more easily available for purchase than illicit drugs like heroin, although some states have implemented restrictions.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, lawmakers <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/health/xylazine-tranq-controlled-substance/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> bipartisan legislation in Congress that would have classified xylazine as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act, but so far no such legislation has passed.</p>
<p>Ohio decided to take action on its own to crack down on &#8220;tranq.&#8221;</p>
<p>In March, Republican Governor Mike DeWine <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/OHIOGOVERNOR/2023/03/29/file_attachments/2451030/Signed%20EO%202023-08D.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order classifying xylazine as a Schedule III controlled substance.</p>
<p>Major cities on both the East and West coasts are scrambling to address the presence of &#8220;tranq&#8221; on their streets.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tranq&#8221; recently hit the streets of New York with “astonishing” speed, <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/xylazine-hitting-new-york-city-with-astonishing-speed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to law enforcement.</p>
<p>This week, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria held a press conference where city leaders addressed the dangers of xylazine on the street.</p>
<p>“If it is anything like fentanyl, just a few years ago we only had a handful of fentanyl overdose cases and now we have hundreds. We hope that we don’t have something similar with tranq,” Gloria <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-leaders-address-looming-threat-of-new-street-drug-tranq/3266730/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>

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