What Is Tranq Dope? The Dangerous New Drug On The Streets

you mix this with fentanyl now you’re increasing the risk of overdose it’s mated into the drug Supply and it’s extremely dangerous everybody welcome back to the channel this is Dr B Dr B addiction recovery and the topic I want to discuss today or the question that was asked of me is what do I know about tranq dope t-r-a-n-q okay I presume it’s short for

tranquilizer let’s get started what I know about tranq dope about as much as every other professional knows right now at this time but let me give you a little bit of a background about it usually for the most part it’s a mixture of this thing called xylazine and Fentanyl xylazine is you can think of it as an animal tranquilizer or an animal anesthetic it’s sedating it’s used as an

analgesic it’s used as a sedative and it’s also used as a muscle relaxant for Animals we actually have seen this since the early 2000s with the Puerto Rican community in the U.S but it wasn’t as widespread use as it is today and that was because of its uh prevalence in Puerto Rico but at this time at least 35

to 40 States they’re seeing these in the overdose deaths and in one particular area in Philadelphia it’s really made its way into the illicit drug Supply and to give you an example of that I was looking at some numbers from 2000 to 2015 they kind of looked at all the debts and about two percent of those overdose

deaths had xylazine in the toxicology in 2019 that number had jumped up to 31 so basically what they’re doing is taking the illicitly manufactured fentanyl cutting it down with cytosine why it’s cheap and it really reduces the price of dope as well most of the users for a long time were not aware of this stuff in it one of the

things that it does it really knocks a person down decreases respiratory depression decreases blood pressure decreases heart rate decreases respiratory rate this is by itself this is without the Fentanyl and it actually creates a very heavy sedating effect you mix this with fentanyl now you’re increasing the risk

of overdose reversal of overdoses of opiates that would usually incorporate the use of Narcan will not work on this stuff so if you have Narcan if you have an opiate in addition to xylazine in your system presumably this will reverse that part of the drugs in your system that are opiates but it won’t reduce the impact

of the xylazine in addition I’m not sure and I don’t think anyone knows how the combination of the drug may have some byproduct that may increase the effect of the respiratory depression and the overall picture of the overdose so none of this is known it’s mated into the drug Supply and it’s extremely dangerous the other thing that they’re seeing with

it as you’re getting chronic open wounds and sores when people are injecting this stuff with the Fentanyl and a lot of people have asked me why is that I don’t know and I’m not sure if anyone completely knows one thing of interest is some of these open wounds are occurring at sites other than the person’s injection site and you can think about why now do we know if

xylazine by itself is corrosive and necrotic to tissue once it’s injected I don’t think we really know because we don’t have a documented history of injecting human beings with this stuff is there a chemical reaction and of the mixture of that with the fentanyl that causes necrosis and highly corrosive inner interaction with the superficial

skin we don’t know keep in mind that your average drug user that’s buying this stuff on the street already is suffering from poor health conditions and a compromised immune system and poor nutritional status and hence once you get a wound in that way which is already a problem for the healthiest of people

now you can have even more problems okay an open wound is a source of infection that can eventually lead to systemic infection and at best amputations at worst death so tranq dope it’s made its way into the illicit drug system it’s in at least 35 to 40 States if not more it’s causing

havoc in Philadelphia so be really careful out there if you’re not in recovery if you’re out there using use the best judgment that you can and protect yourself best you can do is seek help and Recovery I hope this gives you some information I was really hoping for this to be a public service message if you like the content even if you don’t like

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