Something deadly is happening on American streets.

Xylazine, a chemical normally used as a horse tranquilizer, is being mixed into illegal

drugs.

Xylazine has been around for a while, but over the last year authorities are seeing it

turn up in higher quantities all over the US, mixed into fentanyl, methamphetamine, and

other drugs.

I'm deeply concerned about what is this threat mean for the nation.

That's US drugs are a royal Gupta.

In recent weeks, he's been sounding me alarm.

He even acknowledged public health experts and police are mostly in the dark about why

the slated drug threat is happening.

I've seen for Zylazine is uneven across the United States, which makes it hard to get

the national picture.

Many communities are not even aware of the threat in their backyard.

And for people like Casey and Dover Delaware, using drugs tainted with Xylazine, increased

dependency and suffering.

People who are in this are just getting sucked further and further and further, and it

just feels kind of hopeless right now.

Coming up, Xylazine is making addiction deadlier and harder to escape.

How are authorities tackling this problem?

It's considered this from NPR.

I'm Wana Summers.

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