Posted on 03/24/2022 2:17:48 PM PDT by BansheeBill
In Philadelphia, the animal tranquilizer xylazine has infiltrated the opioid supply, and it's been linked to horrific wounds and amputations. Manisha Krishnan By Manisha Krishnan TORONTO, CA March 22, 2022, 7:00am
Drug Users Are Losing Their Fingers and Toes After Shooting ‘Tranq Dope’
PHILADELPHIA — Bill’s hands are so disfigured that he can no longer fit gloves over them.
About two months ago, his right ring finger was amputated. In a matter of weeks, he could lose the middle finger on his left hand, which was swollen with a large, maroon-colored sore covering the knuckle when VICE News met him on a recent morning in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.
The lesions are markers of a drug Bill said he never intended to consume. Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer known on the street as “tranq” or “tranq dope,” has infiltrated Philly’s illicit opioid supply. The 59-year-old, who did not share his last name with VICE News, shivered as he hunted for mittens at an outreach event for drug users in Kensington.
“Boy, this is angry,” said a nurse who volunteers with the harm reduction group Savage Sisters, while examining a wound on one of Bill’s fingers at a pop-up wound care clinic at Kensington’s McPherson Park, known locally as Needle Park because of its open-air drug use.
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Meanwhile, we’re being distracted by a war and transgenderism and whatever else these evil bastards are cooking up.
Joe Biden just trying to do everyone a favor by distributing crack pipes. Saving toes and fingers left and right. Because he cares.
It’s common in veterinary medicine. But there are some drugs that cannot be used in specific species. Just so happens xylazine is safe for most animals except humans.
That’s a shame.
I wanna go back to my sheltered life.
Needle using drug addicts hardest hit.
Once a person crosses that threshold of self injection to get high, it seldom ends any other way except death.
Shooting up is not “recreational” drug use.
From the article:
“ Though it is not FDA-approved for human consumption, it’s not a federally scheduled drug—meaning it’s technically legal—and can be purchased easily online.”
Hey, Tranq Dope could be a plus for Trans Dopes.
After siffe4ing from this, the druggie is serkinf handours instead of quitting and mentoring others.
Humans are constantly in search of new ways to destroy themselves.
Do stupid things… suffer the consequences. “You can’t fix stupid.”
Just when you thought the world couldn’t get more pathetic...
I can’t shrug loud enough
So a drug that has been proven to reduce the dangers of COVID-19, yet is most commonly used on animals is not OK.
Yet a drug for animals that causes the loss of fingers and toes in humans is OK?
They could really reduce harm if they stopped using drugs.
“that threshold of self injection to get high, it seldom ends any other way except death”
A little off topic but I saw a documentary recently that stated once a person becomes a methamphetamine addict the average life span is 7 years....and I don’t think they have to shoot it intravenously for that death sentence.
Ironic, losing all of their fingers might actually save their lives. /s
Sad to see it come to this.
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