It comes with grim side effects and there is no antidote
2010s reports emerged of a nightmarish drug appearing in Russia and eastern Europe. Krokodil, a cheap substitute for heroin that was concocted in kitchen laboratories, left users with scaly skin and rotting wounds. Now a similarly damaging drug, a fentanyl mix known as tranq dope, has arrived in America. Deaths associated with it have almost quadrupled since 2019, rising as a share of
Xylazine can be bought for as little as $6 per kilogram on Chinese websites, so illicit drug suppliers can maximise their profits by using it to bulk up their more expensive fentanyl, supplied mostly by That is cause for concern. Though chemically different from krokodil, tranq affects the body in a similar way. It too causes deep, necrotic wounds, in which skin and muscle simply rot away. Such wounds can easily become infected; ultimately limbs might need to be amputated. Large doses can cause loss of consciousness, which makes the drug-taker an easy target for assault or robbery.
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