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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“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...
A self-correcting problem.
I was eating!
Taking any drug other than what is prescribed for medical reasons is a CHOICE. Bad choices frequently have bad outcomes.
“”Drugs are bad….mmmmmkay”
Marijuana was the first. Government can always legalize others to make more money.
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.
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!
I’ll watch that while eating hot caramel covered ice cream for dessert. It will go well with the oozing pustule videos
Our very own krokodil.
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.
Not any more!
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)
kek
Purging is the new slimfast diet
Seems like a “self licking ice cream cone”. Hard to shoot dope with no fingers.
Some Bactine spray and a few band-aids will fix that right up.
I have learned that even Rx’d drugs are dangerous.
So are many, if not most Drs.
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
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
“Marijuana was the first.”
Alcohol was the first.
Yep I was raised being told to clean my plate.
Put it on your plate eat it.
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