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In West Virginia and elsewhere, dealers mix fentanyl with the powerful animal sedative xylazine. NBC News was able to arrange overseas purchases of the drug within minutes.

Dr. Steven Corder didn’t think his job treating people addicted to fentanyl in Wheeling, West Virginia, could get any harder, but then he began encountering patients who were addicted to both fentanyl and a second drug with its own destructive power — the livestock tranquilizer xylazine.

“Opioid withdrawal is hard enough,” Corder said. But his usual tools, he lamented, “couldn’t touch the withdrawal from xylazine.”

Xylazine is now present in one out of every nine overdose deaths nationwide involving illicit fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

dealers mix fentanyl with the powerful animal sedative xylazine.

Saved you a click.

[–] Fades 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing you said wasn’t in the summary in the post, no click necessary

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The summary was empty when I first saw it.

[–] Fades 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough, we need more people like you that actually do read the damn article

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

[–] chitak166 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mamertine 13 points 11 months ago

Right!

Why would anyone ever write "this state" instead of the state's name. It's just too click baity. Is "West Virginia" that hard to type?

[–] MaxVoltage 1 points 11 months ago

First?????? Sure journalism degrees are worthless

[–] chuckd 13 points 11 months ago

Aka tranq. The effects can be seen by looking up videos of Kensington PA. It seems to have really taken a hold of that area. NSFL

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tranq makes your skin rot. You eventually get necrotic tissue and have to amputate. It's really bad.

[–] tpyoman 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Is that similar to krokodile? I saw a doc earlier that showed people has severely necrotic limbs and kept injecting knowing full well they are rotting their appendages.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's similarly bad. Though one bummer is that tranq is a horse tranquilizer. So if you OD on fent cut with tranq, narcan won't save you, since the tranq will be in effect. You will need two medicines, one of which is rare- and the person being well trained to realize that they are also ODing on tranq. It's a real lose-lose for everyone.

[–] tpyoman 2 points 11 months ago

Dang that sucks