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Tranq tourism’: alarm in Philadelphia as TikTokers travel to film drug users
theguardian ^ | 12/17/2023 | Olivia Empson

Posted on 12/19/2023 12:26:02 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Sarah Laurel, a harm-reduction professional, sat behind her desk and asked the man who walked into her store how much he’d been paid to be in a viral video she’d recently watched.

The man was an active substance user, struggling with addiction, who had probably taken drugs on the streets of Kensington, Philadelphia, earlier that morning. His answer was $50.

Sarah laughed and said that was more than usual.

Since 2021, Kensington, a low-income neighborhood in North Philadelphia, has been ground zero for a new and dangerous sedative called “tranq”. Also known as “xylazine”, a side-effect of this drug can be struggling to stand upright, which is why users are commonly described in the media as “zombies”. People taking it can also develop severe flesh-eating wounds.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: drugs; philadelphia; tiktokers; toursim; tranq
How demented
1 posted on 12/19/2023 12:26:02 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is no low the lefties will not stoop to.


2 posted on 12/19/2023 12:32:47 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And its city council just passed a law that says hospitals can’t send illegals back home for long term care.

So, the taxpayers are going to foot that bill


3 posted on 12/19/2023 12:43:23 PM PST by qaz123
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Now, though, a new and unique problem seems to be affecting areas where the drug is showing up: a dark and voyeuristic type of content creation referred to as “tranq tourism”.

Right, the problem is not the hordes of zombies on tranq - it's the fact that they are being recorded doing it. Good to see the Leftists with their priorities intact.
4 posted on 12/19/2023 1:07:19 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ah, the Leftist way. Complain bitterly when others are publicizing the horrors inflicted by your misguided, destructive policies.


5 posted on 12/19/2023 1:14:58 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They ought to tear Kensington down. Nothing more than a breeding ground for tranqs, Lo-bos and zipheads.


6 posted on 12/19/2023 1:41:49 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The problem is NOT those reporting or showing the devastation.

The problem is the GOVERNMEMT that is allowing the devastation to take place in broad daylight, and let it continue.

Don’t shoot the messenger.


7 posted on 12/19/2023 1:47:13 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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People who would give $50 to an addict to feed their addiction in order to publish it on a commie-based social media platform are their own brand of evil. I hope they get mugged.


8 posted on 12/19/2023 2:11:50 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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I have to wonder if a city council has real jurisdiction over hospitals as to where illegals can be sent for long term care...especially if the illegals decide they want to go back. Many Philly area hospitals are also not in the city proper but in surrounding sub-urbs.


9 posted on 12/19/2023 2:15:23 PM PST by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: mmichaels1970
I hope they get mugged.

Or trip and fall with face plant into a pile of discarded hypodermic needles.

10 posted on 12/19/2023 3:02:44 PM PST by NautiNurse (🇺🇸 Bidenomics: "Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The fentanyl users are all bent over like stink bugs.


11 posted on 12/19/2023 3:25:51 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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Live Kensington Philadelphia webcam at K and A...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUer1y83lpw


12 posted on 12/19/2023 3:44:30 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: mdmathis6

There was a video a whole back of a nurse addressing Congress about the cost of taking care of illegals. The hospital started finding out where their families were and provided transportation for them to go back home. It saved the hospital millions.

Right now, there are 2 elderly hispanic women living in Rockdale Hospital, in Rockdale, Ga. They can’t be thrown out and they have no idea where they’re from. Taxpayer footing the bill.


13 posted on 12/19/2023 4:07:43 PM PST by qaz123
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I see them in my hospitals ER night and day by the dozens. Fat ass grubby Latinos decked out in nice clothes and Smart phones and no insurance. Me, you and every American taxpayer is footing the bill. I HATE these people with a passion. Free loading welfare parasites and baby factories is all they are.
14 posted on 12/20/2023 1:24:20 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

these films have been on you tube for a couple of yrs now....want a surprise?...the white zombies and black zombies get along well it seems....


15 posted on 12/20/2023 1:28:45 AM PST by cherry
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You Tube has some videos up on this. These people are literally dying on their feet.


16 posted on 12/20/2023 3:44:42 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: jmacusa

Baby factories…..the Chinese set up hotels exactly for that reason.

https://www.newsweek.com/feds-raid-maternity-hotels-birth-tourists-777643

We’re such suckers.


17 posted on 12/20/2023 4:59:06 AM PST by qaz123 (C)
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