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Posted on: February 27, 2023

PIX 11: NYC heroin users testing for skin-eating drug ‘tranq’: ‘It destroys your body’

Outside a building on East 126th Street in East Harlem, one of two safe injection sites in New York City, Ryan R. confirmed he has found Xylazine, known as ‘tranq,’ in his illicit drugs.

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