Posted on 01/28/2023 3:26:20 AM PST by blueplum
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood is known as an open air drug market.
"It is the biggest open air drug market on the East Coast. You literally can just walk up on a block and cop whatever substance you like," said James Sherman a former user who is now focused on street outreach with the nonprofit Savage Sisters Recovery.
Now, the area in North Philadelphia is at the center of the Tranq epidemic, hit hard by the emerging misuse of the animal tranquilizer Xylazine. The drug is leaving hundreds of users in Philadelphia with gruesome wounds that could lead to amputations....
...It is not just a Philadelphia problem. The DEA warns that the drug is leading to a major spike in overdose deaths across the nation. Officials say Tranq was first found in the drug supply in Puerto Rico and is mixed in with fentanyl to extend the high.
Tranq does not respond to overdose reversal drugs like Narcan...
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The only conclusion that I can come to is......THE DEVIL’S LOOSE!
Yohimbine.
I do not believe in Evolution as some describe it, But I do find Natural selection very compelling.
It is at work in the drug community.
Legalize most drugs, we don’t need those losers in our society. Even when sober they are useless.
We are dealing with powerful and highly addictive street drugs where the doses are incredibly small and hard to measure and everything is complicated by the fact that nobody knows what they are cutting the stuff with.
Not a good thing considering ghetto math and gang banger ethics.
The problem with the current crop of street drugs is that they are so harmful there is not much left to salvage after people have been addicted to them for any lenght of time due to the irreversible damage they do to the human body.
This includes the latest generation of engineered super potency, highly evolved cannibinol pot. This stuff ain't your old grand dads Acapulco Gold or Maui Wowwy.
The new weed is serious serious, dangerous stuff.
As pot gets formally legalized, we are increasingly seeing just how dangerous and destructive prolonged use of this stuff really is. It's destroying lives and the covid shut downs and stimulus money have turned a huge number of kids into hooked and non functional drop out stoners unable to hold a job or function in society.
why does everyone want to blame drugs?
that is like blaming guns for human poor decisions?
Problem is people. That is where you need to spend our efforts. Admit some just can’t be saved.
I thought from the headline that it was in the prescription drug supply.
THC has no physiologically addictive properties. As a matter of fact, the human body, esp. lactating mothers, produces CBD naturally. Not disagreeing that the potency is much higher than 40 years ago, but it’s not possible to be physiologically addicted to pot. Basically, there’s no withdrawal like with alcohol or other harder drugs, but people can be psychologically hooked on it.
“The only conclusion that I can come to is......THE DEVIL’S LOOSE!”
So true. And another sign of an empire falling apart.
But looking back, those two seem to go together. One begats the other.
Your info is out of date.
it's not just the potency of the pot that been increased, the chemical make up psycho active agents in pot have evolved into different and more extreme psychedelics that have more negative psychological and physiological effects on the body that earlier strains of pot. This is especially true for the brain and nervous system. And they are addictive - maybe not heroin style withdrawal but at least as much so as tobacco. People coming down from a pot binge can be very edgy, agitated and prone to anger management issues. There is an increasing problem with serious clinical level paranoia and psychotic events in chronic users. There is indisputable clinical evidence that chronic pot use causes mental impairment and degradation of cognitive function that continues for an indefinite period after stopping pot use.
It’s a shame. However, this is what the people of Philthadelphi wanted so this is what the people of Philthadelphi got.
Narcan should be outlawed for use on drug addicts. That would help speed up the self induced culling process.
I couldn’t agree more. Humanity is now upside down morally. I had to sit through inservice about the Dept of Health free narcan program at work- thankfully it was remote because I was so disgusted I was nauseous and had to keep getting up and walking out of my office to take a break from it’s BS. Libs providing all their insane nonsense think they are most virtuous people yet they are so amoral and corrupt. Diabetics go without insulin due to insane costs as do those with serious allergies without an epipen, but you don’t see epipens or insulin around like AED defibrillators do you? Nope. Save a friggin repeat druggie over and over- many of whom are criminals. I can’t stand it
The problem is sin. Sin is rampant in these end of the age times.
If you have papers to back up your claims, I’d love to read them. THC is THC. It’s not any more or less of anything, it’s just a chain of chemical bonds.
Welcome to the democrat run paradise known as urban America.
Anyone using street drugs these days has a death wish
Agreed.
my question is why was such a horrific drug approved for use in dogs and cats ... would you want your pet to take this stuff?
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