This last week, the DEA sent out a Public Safety Alert that highlighted the proliferation of a new cocktail of deadly drugs in 48 states.
The alert read: “The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is warning the American public of a sharp increase in the trafficking of fentanyl mixed with xylazine.”
Fentanyl, you likely know by now, is the deadliest street opioid to hit the U.S., 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It’s made almost exclusively south of the U.S. border in Mexico with some imported ingredient help from China. It’s cheap to make and easy to smuggle across the borders, especially laced on other drugs and pills.
A lethal dose of fentanyl is only 2 mg – the equivalent of a few grains of salt. Over 100,000 overdoses have been reported in the U.S. in just the last few years. Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death among Americans ages 18 to 45, more than heart disease, cancer and motor vehicle accidents.
So, what is xylazine, the deadly drug that is now being mixed with fentanyl?
Xylazine, known also as “tranq,” “tranq dope” and the “zombie drug,” is a powerful animal sedative or tranquilizer the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for veterinary use back in 1971. Xylazine is not considered a federally controlled substance, requiring only a veterinarian’s prescription. It is available in powder form and liquid solutions at 20, 100 and 300 mg/mL.
Don’t take it, don’t die
Easy Peasy
Maybe Hunter gave some of it to joe
Or should!!!