(FOX NEWS) – Rotting flesh. That’s a key indicator someone is addicted to xylazine, a drug sweeping the nation. And Kensington, a neighborhood in the City of Brotherly Love, served as ground zero.
“It’s crazy to think … the good option is to have good old fashion heroin back,” Frank Rodriguez, a local advocate, told Fox News. “That s— sounds so crazy and so foreign to say or to think.”
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Rodriguez, himself a recovering heroin addict, said it’s become difficult in Kensington to score H that hasn’t been cut with fentanyl or xylazine. The latter, a veterinary tranquilizer often called tranq, tranq dope or the zombie drug, was ravaging Kensington well before it was identified elsewhere.