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Drug Users Are Losing Their Fingers and Toes After Shooting ‘Tranq Dope’
Vice ^ | 3/22/2002 | Manisha Krishnan

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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KEYWORDS: addiction; chat; chatforum; crime; drugs; pennsylvania; philadelphia; xylazine
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To: datura

“Shooting up is not “recreational” drug use.” Neither is hardcore meth use-there is a lot of that in this rural area-meth cookers/dealers like rural areas-they can avoid detection out in the woods-most of my comp clients who became addicted bought their meth out here...

My 1st husband always said illicit drug use was a self-cancelling problem since most heavy users didn’t last more than a few years before they died-either OD’d or something caused by it. At the risk of sounding cold-he was absolutely right-some people really don’t want to be saved-so let’s stop enabling them/rewarding destructive behaviors by making it possible for them to off themselves in comfort with free needles, health care, etc-maybe some of them would get serious about rehab if they didn’t have a safety set...


41 posted on 03/24/2022 3:34:35 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: BansheeBill

A self-correcting problem.


42 posted on 03/24/2022 3:40:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I was eating!


43 posted on 03/24/2022 3:50:45 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: TigerHawk
...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.

Taking any drug other than what is prescribed for medical reasons is a CHOICE. Bad choices frequently have bad outcomes.

44 posted on 03/24/2022 3:52:36 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Maskot; NobleFree

“”Drugs are bad….mmmmmkay”

Marijuana was the first. Government can always legalize others to make more money.


45 posted on 03/24/2022 3:56:03 PM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Ukraine Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: TigerHawk

I wouldn’t call you any of those - and I think the American public is sick and tired of cattering to these people.

They all should be gathered up off the streets where they are nothing but a menace and danger to others. Build ‘uncomfortable’ facilities and put them there. If they live or die that’s the breaks.


46 posted on 03/24/2022 3:56:52 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: SheepWhisperer
I think it is the History channel that does the series on drug trafficking and using. They had a series on this particular drug and it was being videoed in the Ukraine....

Unbelievable crap that was being used to create this drug and the equally unbelievable results on the human body by the long term users.........

Totally gross!

47 posted on 03/24/2022 3:56:57 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Political Spring is here and here come the FReePuritans to attack our own.....)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’ll watch that while eating hot caramel covered ice cream for dessert. It will go well with the oozing pustule videos


48 posted on 03/24/2022 4:00:07 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: BansheeBill

Our very own krokodil.


49 posted on 03/24/2022 4:02:56 PM PDT by 31R1O
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To: SheepWhisperer

Maybe you shouldn’t read FR while dining. I was eating also
but it didn’t slow me down. Licked my plate clean even it
was a throw away plate.


50 posted on 03/24/2022 4:06:15 PM PDT by deport
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To: SheepWhisperer
I was eating!

Not any more!

51 posted on 03/24/2022 4:08:01 PM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO )
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To: deport

Licked the plate?
What are you, the the family dog?
Did you hijack dad’s computer?
...on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog...unless you give it away =o)


52 posted on 03/24/2022 4:08:58 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: scott7278

kek

Purging is the new slimfast diet


53 posted on 03/24/2022 4:10:04 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: BansheeBill

Seems like a “self licking ice cream cone”. Hard to shoot dope with no fingers.


54 posted on 03/24/2022 4:20:30 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Hot Tabasco

Some Bactine spray and a few band-aids will fix that right up.


55 posted on 03/24/2022 4:26:39 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: JimRed

I have learned that even Rx’d drugs are dangerous.
So are many, if not most Drs.


56 posted on 03/24/2022 4:38:13 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World)
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To: datura

Agreed. It should be treated as a form of self harm. Like someone playing russian roulette.

As close to a suicide attempt as you can get without being called that


57 posted on 03/24/2022 4:38:47 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: BansheeBill

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


58 posted on 03/24/2022 4:46:39 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Does so

“Marijuana was the first.”

Alcohol was the first.


59 posted on 03/24/2022 4:48:46 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: SheepWhisperer

Yep I was raised being told to clean my plate.
Put it on your plate eat it.


60 posted on 03/24/2022 4:55:59 PM PDT by deport
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