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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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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: addiction; chat; chatforum; crime; drugs; pennsylvania; philadelphia; xylazine
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To: BansheeBill
A new drug being combined with fentanyl, with Gruesome side effects.

There are always new and worse drugs. Anyone remember black tar heroin, or bath salts? And whatever happened to crack? Is that still a thing?

61 posted on 03/24/2022 4:57:34 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: BansheeBill

Whack your wiener off and be a girl.

Slice the boobies off and be a boy.

Shoot some dope and be a toeless, fingerless disabled person.

What are your pronouns and how do you identify?

Utopia baby.


62 posted on 03/24/2022 4:58:42 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: caww

THANKS, but I like to think I am those things.

I agree with you completely, but more important deal with the distributors.

Here’s something for you to think about. I found it to be an eye opener.

I lived in Israel for some time. It is said that all is fair in love and war, so getting your opponent’s troops hooked on hard drugs is as effective a tactic of warfare as any other, maybe more so. It happened to the US in Vietnam, where heroin was cheap and readily available, specifically for that reason. Israel does not mind very much the use of hashish (marijuana essentially), which is regarded as a just a mild intoxicant (but still frowned upon), but absolutely will not tolerate heroin, or other addictive hard drugs, which are strictly kept out of the country. How is this done? It’s very simple, and very effective.

When smugglers attempt to bring such drugs into the country, from any border, and are interdicted, the smugglers ALWAYS put up armed resistance, and ALL of them are ALWAYS killed.
EVERY ONE OF THEM, EVERY TIME. PERIOD!

THERE IS LITTLE OR NO HARD DRUG PROBLEM IN ISRAEL!

WE WOULD DO WELL TO TRY THAT METHOD AT OUR BORDERS.


63 posted on 03/24/2022 5:15:29 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World)
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To: BansheeBill

They closed Byberry because the social activists complained. Where are those social activists now? Shouldn’t they be fixing Kensington?

Put a bucket of fentanyl on each street corner. The problem will fix itself.


64 posted on 03/24/2022 5:21:41 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: deport

Raised the same way.

Old school


65 posted on 03/24/2022 5:29:47 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: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

66 posted on 03/24/2022 6:08:33 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: BansheeBill

crockadil is coming


67 posted on 03/24/2022 6:14:42 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: datura
The lesions are markers of a drug Bill said he never intended to consume.

If you're shooting up its a pretty good likelihood that you will shoot up anything/everything your dealer sells you.

68 posted on 03/24/2022 6:15:30 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: TigerHawk

It’s possible to crack down on it for sure - if it weren’t for all the whinning mothers who oppose how their kids are treated and threaten lawsuites, protests etc. at the drop of a hat.

I like Israels way of handling it.


69 posted on 03/24/2022 7:33:56 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: BansheeBill

As long as they are not using ivermectin to treat COVID the authorities wont care.


70 posted on 03/25/2022 4:43:16 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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