Horse tranquilizers! The new hot drug.

I know someone who is taking horse tranquilizers! It’s the new thing I guess.

Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰
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I was thinking, what the heck? So I had to google it. I had seen it at my local feed store as I was cruising the isles. I had pet chickens, rabbits, rats, dogs, cats, and more.

A horse tranquilizer is increasingly popping up as a street drug in the U.S., and it is now involved in nearly one-third of fatal opioid drug overdoses.

The tranquilizer drug, called xylazine, is not considered an opioid, but it is often found mixed with the opioids heroin or fentanyl, a combination sometimes referred to as “tranq dope,”.

The researchers found that detection of the drug during post-mortem exams has spiked sharply over the past decade among people who have died from opioid overdoses in Philadelphia.

I found tons of the stuff for sale on google. Crazy stuff! The one below was on chewy.com. A pet supply.

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