Bunker USA: The horror drug killing thousands of Americans

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🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Xylazine, also known as Tranq, is causing a horrific wave of drug deaths across America. It’s mixed with the opioid named fentanyl to cause a cheaper, longer-lasting, yet more dangerous high. Perhaps the most shocking effect is its ability to rot the flesh around the injection site. Megan Cohen is the founder of The Grace Project in Philadelphia. She runs an outreach scheme on Kensington Avenue, home to the largest open air drugs market on the East Coast. She joined Alex Andreou in The Bunker to discuss the serious threat Tranq poses. “These aren’t zombies out there, they’re people impacted by the disease of addiction.” – Megan Cohen “What we noticed is the doses were stronger and the overdoses were happening more often.” – Megan Cohen “What we’re seeing is that narcan isn’t reversing overdoses as it was before, because of xylazine.” – Megan Cohen “When it comes to the wounds we still don’t have answers.” – Megan Cohen Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
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1:22.0	We have been hearing for some years about the
1:24.8	fentanyl epidemic killing tens of thousands of people in the US every year,
1:29.4	an astonishing 70% of the more than 100,000 deaths by drug overdose in the states last year
1:37.0	involved fentanyl mixed in with a substance.
1:41.0	This is increasingly an issue in the UK too.
1:43.0	In February of this year the government added synthetic opioids to the Class A schedule.
1:48.0	But now fentanyl is being mixed in with something even more deadly,
1:53.8	xylazine, a substance that not only makes
1:57.4	overdose more likely but treatment more difficult.
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