'The deadliest threat America's ever faced': Mass-produced in China, trafficked from Puerto Rico and available online for just $1 a KILO — why the flesh-rotting zombie drug 'tranq' has the DEA terrified
- Xylazine, also known as 'tranq,' is a sedative often mixed with fentanyl
- Manufactured from China and popular in Puerto Rico, it's now sweeping the US
- READ MORE: Minute by minute, what happens to the body when you take 'tranq'
A cheap animal tranquilizer being mass-manufactured in China and flooding America's illicit drug supply is terrifying health officials.
Xylazine, or 'tranq' as it's known on the street, has been dubbed a 'zombie drug' due to the hunched-over, lifeless state it leaves users in and fact that it causes users' bodies to erupt in gaping wounds.
It is mainly being mixed with fentanyl to create a fatal cocktail, which the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has described as 'the deadliest threat our country has ever faced.'
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