Hal is joined by Dr. Matt Waxman, UCLA Emergency medicine physician and professor. He talks to us about what the emerging deadly drug Tranq is, and how it is affecting patients they see in the emergency room.
He says that people who overdose on Tranq can’t be revived by Narcan the way patients who overdose on opioids can. He also details a strange side effect of the drug that creates tissue death in patients that can go down to the bone and potentially necessitate amputations. He says that by mixing Xylazine with Fentanyl, users get a high more like heroin rather than the short-term high of Fentanyl.
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