Xylazine causes wounds that erupt with a scaly dead tissue called eschar; untreated, they can lead to amputation. It induces a blackout stupor for hours, rendering users vulnerable to rape and robbery. When people come to, the high from the fentanyl has long since faded and they immediately crave more. Because xylazine is a sedative and not an opioid, it resists standard opioid overdose reversal treatments.
More than 90 percent of Philadelphia’s lab-tested dope samples were positive for xylazine, according to the most recent data.
Xylazine is approved for use in animals, so it's not a controlled substance. But that may change.
At some point, far in the future, we're going to figure out that this goddamned War on Drugs has been an utter failure.
But not anytime soon. You're going to hear the same sort of smug shit from the moralists that was heard when people were drinking methanol during Prohibition.
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I won't dispute that the entire WOD has been a total failure. Further, it has cost a lot of innocent people who travel carrying large sums of money the loss of said money or lost income and money to get it all back. The sad thing is even if the gov legalized recreational drugs the illegal sale of drugs would still proliferate because legal drug sales would be highly taxed.
Don't set the taxes too high, then.
This reminds me of "krokodil", a drug that started to be made on the street in Russia 10 or 15 years ago. It is called desomorphine, and was used as a cheap alternative to heroin or morphine, but the crap the makers left in the material (solvents like battery acid, junk from the codeine tablets it was made from) would often kill the flesh around the addict's injection site for gangrene, or just ulcers... either way the necrosis resembled crocodile skin, so that is where the name came from.
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