New ‘tranq’ drug spreading through Puget Sound region

A new drug is spreading through the Seattle area that is even more dangerous than pure fentanyl.

People are mixing fentanyl with xylazine, a tranquilizer used on large animals like horses and elephants, to create a mixture known as tranq.

Tranq is especially lethal because both xylazine and fentanyl are downers, which cause the heart to beat at a dangerously slow rate. In minutes, a person can slip into a coma and die.

King County seeing increasing ‘white powder’ fentanyl

But while naloxone — more commonly known by its brand name, Narcan — can reverse an overdose caused by fentanyl or other opioids, it is powerless against a tranq

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