The new drug plaguing US cities

This Is Why

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A tranquiliser used by vets is infiltrating street drugs and deepening addiction across cities in the US. The drug called xylazine is causing wounds so severe that without treatment results in amputation. The problem is particularly bad in Philadelphia – which has long been ground zero for the opioid crisis.
On this edition of the Sky News Daily Niall Paterson talks to US Correspondent, Mark Stone who has been to the city and to Professor Paul Cristo from John Hopkins University about the on going opioid crisis in the US.

Podcast producers: Rosie Gillott and Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Interviews Producer: Alex Edden
Junior podcast producer: Charlie Bell
Editor Philly Beaumont

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1:01.8	Well, I'm just back from the day in Philadelphia.
1:08.6	And I have to say, I'm just, I'm kind of speechless, I just can't, I can't believe
1:17.8	how bad it is. I'd read stuff, I'd spoken to people, I'd seen some pictures, but I wasn't expecting what we saw.
1:32.7	That is Sky's US correspondent Mark Stone. He's just back from Philadelphia, where a new drug
1:38.5	is causing massive problems and in an area of the country already struggling with the opioid crisis.
1:46.0	We're with a group of people from an organisation called the Everywhere project and their job is to treat wounds.
1:53.0	One of the most horrific consequences of this new drug, Trank, is these horrific wounds which just grow and grow.
2:01.6	Trank, well, as you might expect, it is a tranquilizer, real name Zylazine.
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