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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Kamaji on February 22, 2023, 01:25:58 pm
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Skin-rotting drug ‘tranq’ infiltrates big cities: ‘Zombifying bodies’
By Brooke Kato
February 21, 2023
There’s a new drug in town — and it has deadly consequences.
Xylazine — otherwise known as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — is wreaking havoc in major cities across the country with its devastating effects: It can literally rot the user’s skin.
The substance, which seemed to first appear in Philadelphia before migrating west to San Francisco and Los Angeles, was used for cutting heroin, but, most recently, it has been discovered in fentanyl and other illicit drugs.
While approved by the Food and Drug Administration for veterinary use, xylazine, a non-opioid, is not safe for humans, and those who overdose on the drug do not respond to naloxone, or Narcan, the most common overdose reversal treatment.
Xylazine causes sedative-like symptoms, such as excessive sleepiness and respiratory depression, as well as raw wounds that can become severe and spread rapidly with repeated exposure. The crusty ulcerations, which can become dead skin called eschar, can result in amputation if left untreated.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/skin-rotting-drug-tranq-infiltrates-big-cities-zombifying-bodies/
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And here I thought that zombie apocalypse business was fiction. :pop41:
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Pics from the NY Post:
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tranq-philly-comp.jpg?resize=457,305&quality=75&strip=all)
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And this drug is made where, let me guess, China?
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Pics from the NY Post:
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tranq-philly-comp.jpg?resize=457,305&quality=75&strip=all)
We are finding all kinds of new ways to kill our nation
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Once again, I look at this and think:
This is a problem that will "take care of itself" in time...
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Once again, I look at this and think:
This is a problem that will "take care of itself" in time...
As long as they don't develop a taste for human flesh... :whistle:
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Once again, I look at this and think:
This is a problem that will "take care of itself" in time...
I agree.
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Horrific footage shows devastation of Philadelphia’s ‘tranq’ epidemic
By Jacob Geanous
May 27, 2023 7:17pmHorrific footage shows the devastating toll the “tranq” drug epidemic has had on addicts in Philadelphia.
The Kensington neighborhood — made infamous by its open-air drug market — is seen completely packed with the slumped-over and passed-out drug users in the video posted to TikTok by urbanvisuals2.0.
The harrowing clip comes as the “City of Brother Love” struggles with the rising use of the drug Xylazine, or “tranq,” which is a deadly sedative used to enhance the effects of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. ...
Sarah Laurel, founder of harm reduction nonprofit Savage Sisters, said there has been increase use of xylazine over the last four years.
“And we are now left with individuals that have open gaping ulcers, infections, some necrotic tissue, and that leads to amputation,” Laurel told NPR. ...
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NYPICHPDPICT000011853283.jpg?resize=707,1024&quality=75&strip=all)
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/horrific-footage-shows-devastation-of-philadelphias-tranq-epidemic/)
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Lovely.
Ultimately, the problem will be self-correcting.
Pity, though. What a waste.
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One does need to wonder about the business model of drug gangs who push drugs that have higher (fentanyl) and higher (xylazine) probabilities of killing off their customers.
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One does need to wonder about the business model of drug gangs who push drugs that have higher (fentanyl) and higher (xylazine) probabilities of killing off their customers.
This administration not only facilitated the illicit drug trade with its border policies, it is bringing in plenty of fresh meat to sell the stuff to. At all levels, it's about the money, not a humanitarian effort.
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Parasites kill their hosts, including human parasites called "dealers".
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Parasites kill their hosts, including human parasites called "dealers".
Poorly-adapted parasites kill their hosts. Well-adapted parasites keep their hosts alive so they can live off of them long-term.
Your parasite analogy to dealers is apt, but so is my critique of their business model -- shifting to the biological analogy, a dealer (parasite) whose drugs are more addictive and more pleasurable to the user (host) but do not kill the user (host) is better adapted than one who kills his users (host).
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Poorly-adapted parasites kill their hosts. Well-adapted parasites keep their hosts alive so they can live off of them long-term.
Your parasite analogy to dealers is apt, but so is my critique of their business model -- shifting to the biological analogy, a dealer (parasite) whose drugs are more addictive and more pleasurable to the user (host) but do not kill the user (host) is better adapted than one who kills his users (host).
Very true.
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One does need to wonder about the business model of drug gangs who push drugs that have higher (fentanyl) and higher (xylazine) probabilities of killing off their customers.
I think their basic business model revolves around turnaround. Stronger drugs sell faster. Profits come first. Americans want their drugs. The dealers don't care who or how many they kill. There are always more players getting into the game.
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Drug dealers should face serious consequences. With 340 million folks in the USA, I say dispatch them immediately at sunrise the next day upon being found guilty.
If there is any demographic group that is totally expendable, it is drug dealers.
The death penalty in the USA means nothing because the average dirt bag that receives that outcome sits on death row for I am certain over 20 years on average. Idiocy.