Tranq - a mixture of the opioid Fentanyl and the animal tranquiliser Xylazine - is spreading rapidly across the US.
Since then, data suggests use of the drug is spreading rapidly all over the country.Speaking to reporters, the head of the White House Office for National Drug Control Policy, Dr. Rahul Gupta expressed alarm at the prevalence of the cocktail.
With help from volunteer medics and outreach workers we were shown the horrific wounds caused by the drug which is smoked, snorted or injected. Unusually the wounds appear randomly on the body.Advertisement, speaking to Sky News last month, admitted they do not have a grip of their city's crisis and warned that it would spread to other parts of the country.
The US is already experiencing a drug overdose crisis with the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Overdoses have surged to more than 100,000 a year.What is 'Tranq'? The new drug emerging in America
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