A flesh-rotting “zombie” drug used in vapes is ... Xylazine, often known as “tranq”, is a high-strength veterinary sedative ...

One person dies of a drug overdose every five minutes in America. More than 70,000 people a year are already being killed by the opioid Fentanyl. This drug is now being mixed with something even ...

And many ultimately are leaving hospitals against medical advice, with severe, untreated skin lesions, insisting they can't bear the withdrawal from tranq—the drug that caused their wounds in ...

Possessing, selling, or trafficking Xylazine, the dangerously popular "zombie drug" that can gash users with festering wounds ...

The drug is also known as tranq or tranq dope and the county said this is the first known death from the powerful animal tranquilizer. In the release, Whatcom County said a toxicology report ...

AUSTIN (TEXAS) – In March 2023, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, or DEA, issued an alert about the widespread threat of fentanyl with xylazine, or tranq – a non-opiate sedative authorized in ...

Also known as “tranq,” or “tranq dope,” on the streets ... The “zombie drug” nickname stems from the substance's known effect of rotting the skin. KTLA's Karen Wynter reports on ...