👀 A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so severe that some result in amputation.

Xylazine produces wounds that erupt with a scaly dead tissue called eschar; untreated, they can lead to amputation. The animal tranquilizer — known by street names like “tranq,” “tranq dope” and “zombie drug” — induces a blackout stupor for hours, rendering users vulnerable to rape and robbery. When people come to, the high from the fentanyl has long since faded and they immediately crave more. Because xylazine is a sedative and not an opioid, it resists standard reversal treatments for opioid overdoses.

“The tranq dope literally eats your flesh,” said Brooke Peder, 38, who had her right leg amputated because of an infection from a tranq wound that bore into the bone.

A study published in June detected xylazine in the drug supply in 36 states and the District of Columbia. In New York City, xylazine has been found in 25% of drug samples, though health officials say the actual amount is higher.

No disrespect to the artist
But I saw a statue that was supposed to be
Martin Luther King Jr and coretta Scott
On the internet, it was mlk weekend
And the statue at Boston...was it called
Embrace?

Is it another way of tellin us to shut
The fuck up about racism and have a
Victory again and again? Cos like
We're still burned up in ashes
Of the burnin house....the art, where are their
Heads? What's the symbolism?

It looks like somethin sexual...
And a black artist did it....
I couldn't make it out what it is
Everybody cheers...

White supremacy is tellin us somethin
Somethin rapey....
Ya they disrespect our leader
That's nothin new...
The statue looks like a homo
It reminds me Ancient Greeks
Homoeroticism vibe....

I'm sorry black artist,
But what's that?
I know it's rude
I might have people who look at
My art and say ummm
What's this
I might be hurt
However
I gotta be honest

There's somethin wrong with
This message it might be over
My head.... the whole situation
Is tellin me somethin
Like I'm seein
Black men
Sexually
Lovin each other....

The statue
Is brown
And I don't know
If it's an ass or not

I can debunk what
The system is sayin
Or at least I can try....

White supremacy
Still continues to push
Homosexuality
On black men
Only to erase
All the black masculinity...

I could be guessin
What they're sayin
Cos obviously
There are no heads of
A black woman and a black man
And they fear of black love....
They're still sayin
Please don't be a power couple
Who are mindin their business....

Or I may be incorrect
I study racism
And observe the event online
And I'm like
What is this?
I apologize to the artist
For being cruel
Somehow he doesn't understand
White supremacy....

He worked hard on it
And it's like
It's givin
Ancient Greek roman homosexuality
Vibes....
It doesn't look like an embrace...

💯✊🏿©️ Kai C. 1-14-24

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