Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis
Here is a recent article about xylazine from the NYT <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;07&#x2F;health&#x2F;fentanyl-xylazine-drug.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;07&#x2F;health&#x2F;fentanyl-xylazine-...</a><p>&gt; <i>“The tranq dope literally eats your flesh,” she said. “It’s self-destruction at its finest.”</i><p>&gt; <i>She unrolled a bandage from elbow to palm. Beneath patches of blackened tissue, exposed white tendons and pus, the sheared flesh was hot and red. To stave off xylazine’s excruciating withdrawal, she said, she injects tranq dope several times a day. Fearful that injecting in a fresh site could create a new wound, she reluctantly shoots into her festering forearm.</i><p>&gt; <i>The only person who would let her use a cellphone was a guy whose arm and leg had been amputated because of his tranq wounds. He was still injecting into his leg stump.</i><p>If a drug that literally turns you into a melting, oozing zombie with flesh dripping off your bones doesn&#x27;t make you find a different drug - not even quit, I mean, find a different drug to get fucked up on - I think that person is suicidal. This is some morbid shit right here.