Also called 'Tranq,' Xylazine is a powerful sedative federally approved for veterinary use. “Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,' DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said.
, one of whom died, at an upscale mall, federal drug authorities are warning of even more dangerous substances.
Fentanyl, which is what the women in the Shops at Riverside mall case ingested last week, can be used to lace drugs like cocaine or heroin for a stronger effect. It's an opioid said to be up to 100 times as potent as heroin -- and the DEA says it's being mixed with something to make it even more life-threatening to those who use it.And it can eat your flesh.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier," DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a statement associated with the alert. Also called"Tranq," Xylazine is a powerful sedative federally approved for veterinary use. Increasingly, agents are seeing traffickers mix it with fentanyl, which they say puts users at a higher risk of dying from an overdose.
Milgram said the DEA has seized such mixtures in all but two U.S. states. Lab tests show 23% of all fentanyl powder seized by her office last year and 7% of fentanyl pills contained xylazine.
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