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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Sounds kind of like Krokodil, the Russian drug that got some notie a few years ago.
Bizarre concept and need.
It sounds like Lucy from Peanuts putting up a stand.
So very sad.
I still haven’t got my Biden free crack pipe.
I assume he thinks he got his drugs from a 3rd-party tested illegal drug dealer?
Thank you for posting the link, PhillyPhreeper - those people look like they are cold, uncomfortable, and really screwed up ....
We need to stop coddling people from the consequences of their horrible life choices...
It’s called dope for a reason.
Terrible.
Call me insensitive, cruel, non compassionate, DEPLORABLE even, but I just can’t manage to give a rat’s rump about what happens to IV drug users because of what they do to themselves.
Sorry about that!
It's rampant in both Russia and the Ukraine and its effects on the body are something out of horror videos.
Drugs are bad….mmmmmkay?
Reminds me of that Russian drug. Called something like alligator skin, or something like that.
‘The 59-year-old ‘( still doing drugs and living on the streets)??????
I often wondered why people drugged out for so long don’t just take sleeping pills and be done with it.
Yeah, that’s the one I was thinking of.. just got the name wrong :D
Krokodil
Send a batch to the WHITE HOUSE!...and a bunch more to CONGRESS where it’ll do some good!
They should all be gathered up as a menance to society - put in special confined barracks with facilities for rehab. Those who make it fine those who don’t that’s tough. No second chances.
Will be a lot harder for them to steal, pickpocket and blow their noses if hands fall off. So very sad.
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