“While the numbers are relatively low in our community compared to elsewhere in the United States, the presence of xylazine is now becoming more frequent and the trend is concerning.”
Addiction expert Cary Quashen said he’s “never seen anything like what we’re dealing with right now.”
“We had a woman come in and her sister had passed away from a fentanyl overdose,” Quashen told KTLA. “But not only was it a fentanyl overdose her skin was starting to rot, the muscles on her leg and her arm. So that’s a sure sign of xylazine.”public safety warning in March that xylazine is now being used as a cheap cutting agent for fentanyl and has reached 48 states.
In New York, the deadly “zombie drug” has been tied to dozens of deaths, Senate Majority Leader Chuck
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