‘Highly prevalent’: Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, is making the fentanyl epidemic even deadlier

Featured photo: Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer primarily used to sedate large animals that is being circulated along with fentanyl. “Everyone knows someone,” said Michael Thull, program director of Guilford County Solution to the Opioid Problem, when he discussed how xylazine — a tranquilizer that is increasingly found laced in illicit substances —  impacts the … Continue reading ‘Highly prevalent’: Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, is making the fentanyl epidemic even deadlier