The street drug has been circulating on the East Coast for the last few years.
In the medical world, xylazine is normally used only to treat horses. One of the most severe effects of prolonged use of xylazine in humans is the potential for severe lesions and abscesses.
The arrival of Tranq in San Francisco was discovered in part because supervisor Matt Dorsey had been asking the medical examiner to review past overdoses. “We are seeing a loss of life that we have not seen in San Francisco since the AIDS crisis, to one drug, fentanyl. And now we've got some new and deadly ones on the horizon,” he said.
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