TRANQUILLISER ABUSE
A New Drug Alert: Xylazine in Fentanyl, Heroin, Other Illicit Drug Supplies
Xylazine is in the news for causing overdoses, deaths and addiction in several U.S. states and Puerto Rico. But many people don’t even know it’s in their supplies of heroin, fentanyl or cocaine. In this case, what they don’t know can kill them.
Xylazine – Making the Opioid Epidemic Even More Deadly
Every year it seems, there is a new drug on the market, a new substance that is addictive, dangerous, even lethal. The new substance that is making headlines this year is Xylazine, a powerful animal tranquilizer that’s being mixed into opioid drugs, often without addicts knowing it.