The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is warning the public of a dramatic increase in the availability of the powerful, FDA-approved veterinary sedative xylazine (commonly known by its street name “tranq”) in combination with the potentially deadly opioid fentanyl.
“Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. “[The] DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 of