A nurse treats a man's skin wounds in a community outreach storefront in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia in May. Xylazine, a powerful animal sedative that's moving through the illicit drug ...
Xylazine or "tranq" wounds—characterized by deep pockets of dead tissue—have become increasingly visible in Philadelphia among people who use drugs. That's because xylazine, an animal ...
The use of tranq in Philadelphia has risen in recent years. The city's public health department recently found Xylazine in every sample of drugs tested. While the sample of 39 was small ...
xylazine, a powerful animal tranquilizer, started appearing in street fentanyl. It has since spread throughout the United States, including in 99% of the street fentanyl in Philadelphia ...
Miller said his Philadelphia source, who sold him the fentanyl/xylazine, provided him with those boxes and a blender as part of a start-up kit to which he paid no attention. “He could have given ...