The VERY drug-addled streets of Philadelphia: Shocking footage of zombified tranq-addicts swaying on the sidewalk as presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy visits 'warzone' Democrat city.
It's already laying waste to cities in the US, rotting the flesh of drug users - and now it has its terrible claws firmly embedded in Britain.
Being a respiratory depressant, xylazine also causes a user's breathing, heart rate and blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels. Taking it with opioids increases the chance of a potentially lethal overdose. A tiny amount can be fatal. The resulting necrosis — rotting of infected tissue — leaves festering wounds like chemical burns that must be amputated.
'This is not a problem just for the heroin users. This is a problem for a wider population of people who use drugs, who might not think that they're at risk of xylazine harm,' she warned this week. The drug has spread across the country, from Los Angeles to New York City , with news crews capturing people hunched over and on the groundThere, tranq users have described its devastating consequences. 'When you start getting sick from the tranq, you start shaking violently, salivating and vomiting,' said addict Devin Bair. 'You're pretty much just a mess on the ground.
READ MORE: America's 'capital of woke' decriminalised drugs and became a hellscape of open-air fentanyl markets which even addicts admit was a mistake... leading to a humiliating U-turn for liberals, reveals TOM LEONARD Advertisement Given that xylazine can also cause amnesia, users may not even remember what happened to them. One US addict said that while 'you get warm and fuzzy from fentanyl, tranq just puts you to sleep'.
Untreated, the gaping wounds fester. Out on the streets, they attract maggots and fleas, and can even open to expose the bone. Amputation is often inevitable but infected areas can also prove fatal. While xylazine was first developed in 1962 by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer and is used by vets across the world, including in Britain, addicts didn't start using it as a heroin substitute until the 2000s.
By then it had already been detected in the Kensington neighbourhood of Philadelphia — a poor area with a large Puerto Rican population — and by 2018 the problem was escalating fast.
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