Terrifying new street drug 'rhino tranq' causes wave of deaths in Michigan, Philly and Chicago READ MORE: Grim photos show 'tranq' addicts shooting up in broad daylight By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:18 BST, 7 June 2024 | Updated: 21:32 BST, 7 June 2024 e-mail View comments Using any street drug is now a game of Russian Roulette, according to a police chief in a city grappling with a new cutting agent dubbed ‘rhino tranq’. Since DailyMail.
com first wrote about the drug , formally known as medetomidine, more cities are reporting waves of overdoses that medicine cannot reverse. The sedative is 100 to 200 times more potent than xylazine, an animal tranquilizer being used to boost the potency of everything from cocaine to heroin and fentanyl. It doesn't show on test strips and cannot be treated with Narcan, making it a silent killer that neither police or users can keep up with.
Rick Lorah, deputy chief of criminal investigations in Erie, Pennsylvania , not far from Philadelphia where over 160 overdoses involving rhino tranq occurred in just four days last month. He said ‘So if it’s happening in Philadelphia, it’s happening in New York, it’s happening in Pittsburgh, it will happen here.’ Drugs are openly used and passed around in the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, with many bent over in a trance like state He said that the new drug adulterants are 'all cheaper than the drug being sold.
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