And In Other Drug News: "The terrifying flesh-eating drug meant for horses that is now hitting the streets of America: 'Tranq dope' Xylazine...."

From the Daily Mail, September 25:

• Doctors say xylazine - a muscle relaxant intended for large animals like horses - has been appearing in the illicit drug scene in cities across the US joining fentanyl as one of the primary narcotics used to cut opioids 
• The drug prolongs the highs felt from heroin, but results in users passing out for hours at a time, while injection points ulcerate and lead to grisly wounds that spread across the body
• Some users even report severe soars erupting across their body where they never injected the drug, and many are left disfigured as fingers, arms, feet, legs and toes are forced to be amputated  
• In Philadelphia - considered to be ground zero for the xylazine crisis - about one-third of all fatal opioid overdoses in 2019 were related to the drug
  

Health officials are warning of a terrifying flesh-eating drug which is being increasingly found laced into heroin, cocaine and other narcotics - leading to a soaring number of drug overdoses across the country.

Doctors say xylazine - a muscle relaxant intended for large animals like horses - has been appearing in the illicit drug scene in cities across the US, joining fentanyl as one of the primary narcotics used to cut opioids.

The drug prolongs the highs felt from heroin, but results in users passing out for hours at a time, while injection points ulcerate and lead to grisly wounds that spread across the body.....

.....MUCH MORE

And from Sage Journals, Journalism and Communication Monographs journal:
“Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?”: Richard Nixon’s National Mass Media Campaign Against Drug Abuse

Earlier:
Scott Adams Proposes A Response To The Murder Of 71,000 Americans Per Year By The Fentanyl Producers and Dealers