Shocking video shows zombie-like addicts at ‘ground zero’ of Philadelphia’s ‘tranq’ epidemic

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Shocking video shows zombie-like addicts at ‘ground zero’ of Philadelphia’s ‘tranq’ epidemic
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The horse sedative Xylazine, or “tranq,” has been wreaking havoc on the streets of Philadelphia.

The Kensington neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia, which has become notorious for its open-air drug market, is seen crowded with hordes of drug-addled people — many of them sprawled barefoot on the filthy ground, or slumped over in the video posted onSome of the addicts appear to have no control of their bodies as they are seen hunched over and struggling to remain on their feet.

Most of Kensington’s zombie-like inhabitants do not have tents and sleep directly on the ground amid clumps of refuse, with their meager possessions stuffed into plastic bags, shopping carts, backpacks or laundry baskets. The alarming new video highlights the Democratic-controlled Philadelphia’s apparent failure to get a handle on the rising use of the drug Xylazine, better known as “tranq” — a powerful horse and cattle sedative used to enhance the effects of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.

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