A drug made to treat animals is now being used by drug dealers to hook more addicts and it's killing people. The drug is called Xylazine and it's being mixed with fentanyl. A deadly combination that has put Duval county at the top of a list no county wants to be on. More people are dying here than any other county in the state.
– A drug made to treat animals is now being used by drug dealers to hook more addicts and it’s killing people.
According to the Duval County Health Department, 138 people have died so far this year from taking Xylazine Susan Pitman, the founder of Drug Free Duval, says they’re able to pinpoint where most of these xylazine overdoses are happening in our county by zip code.
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