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what's being called the zombie drug, a horse tranquilizer or tranq infiltrating street drugs across the nation with deadly consequences. >> my detox was i can't even describe it. there was no type of medicine they're giving you that's helping it. so it's like, i don't know. it's a whole different ballgame. we're at the epicenter of the xylazine boom, the urgent ra us tonight. an unexpected development in the classified documents case against former president donald trump now facing two new obstruction charges, accused of attempting to destroy evidence after receiving a subpoena. special counsel jack smith accusing trump of allegedly pressuring a maintenance worker to delete surveillance footage at his mar

a lago estate in florida. that maintenance worker, carlos de oliveira, also charged today. the trump campaign responding to the new superseding indictment. tonight calling the charges an attempt to harass the former president and his allies. all this coming after trump's attorneys met with smith and his team about another possible criminal indictment, potentially connected to january 6th. we turn now to the terrifying evolution in the nation's overdose crisis. xylazine. it's a horse tranquilizer known on the streets as tranq added to drugs like cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. people are buying the drugs, sometimes unaware of the dangerous mixture. our austin singh is at the epicenter of the crisis. >> katie, it looks like you got like a mobile clinic in the trunk of your car wound care nowadays is everywhere.

>> you know. >> katie maori and stephanie clip are not your typical nurses day after day they pack up their supplies and set out to these forgotten streets of the infamous kensington neighborhood in philadelphia, already known as a hotbed of the opioid crisis. many people here inject openly and now the area is being ravaged by an insidious drug called xylazine, or tranq, a cheap and powerful horse tranquilizer approved by the fda for veterinary use only. but some dealers here and across the country are mixing it into common street drugs like heroin, cocaine and fentanyl, all to increase profits. according to the dea, a powerful drug mixture dubbed the zombie drug is making its way around california. >> the drug has made its way now to alabama to xylazine is creeping into the twin cities street drug supply at a rate

that's alarming law enforcement . >> eight track, whether it's smoked, snorted or injected, can make users appear zombie like some say it's like they're in a trance. >> they also often develop gruesome wounds on their skin for katie and stephanie, it's like nothing they've ever seen. >> you popped out of your car to administer treatment. >> oh, absolutely. multiple times. whether it's reversing an overdose, you know, we try and do it all, but you will never feel like it's enough. >> disturbing scenes play out here constantly. just steps away from our interview. a young woman overdoses as katie springs into action, reviving her with narcan and rushing her to a neighborhood outpost called savage sisters. inside side. she's still slumped over and nearly unresponsive, likely from tranq, though today she's one of the lucky ones who survived as xylazine was original, put into the supply to extend the

euphoria and the high feeling for individuals consuming that dope. >> nobody asked for this. nobody knew that this was being adulterated into our supply. a record 1276 unintentional overdose deaths happened in philly in 2021. >> xylazine was found in more than a third of them. that's up 39% from the year before for our overdose response has had to change significantly. >> like we can't just pop narcan on people now. we have to do lots of rescue breathing because the train is coming. so that's going to change the way overdose looks across the country when it becomes infiltrated. i worked in radiology and cardiology, and i also was a drug counselor for five years. >> i was clean for a while before i got sucked in this vortex. this is from the tendon damage, you know what i mean? like you know, it'll just right, it'll just fall back down. now, this is a good day because sometimes i only have pincher fingers. they get extensive, they come all over the entire

limb, full forearms, full legs, legs, full calves, all of the hands top. >> so extensive, extensive wounds like open and a dirty environment. it's really challenging. give me my back. >> i'm just looking to take a seat and wait. >> sarah laurel heads up. savage sisters. she once ran on these same streets while she was in the grips of a heroin addiction until she entered recovery six years ago. >> so then we started noticing wounds as wounds worsen with infection, they become necrotic and lead to amputation. >> some people who use tranq can become trapped in a cycle of darkness where painful withdrawals send them running back to the drug for relief. those in recovery say that detox from tranq is exceptionally grueling. like jose castillo, once homeless and battling addiction, he now works with savage sisters. >> my detox was i can't even describe it because it was to the point where i didn't think i was going to make it through it.

the sickness lasts longer and there's no type of medicine they're giving you. that's helping it. so it's like i don't know, it's a whole different ballgame. >> tranq and the horrors it brings is now going beyond the streets of philadelphia. tranq has been detected in at least 48 states, according to the cdc. overdose deaths involving xylazine were 35 times higher in 2021 than they were in 2018. the white house sounding the alarm, declaring xylazine mixed with illicit fentanyl an emerging threat to the us. this past april. while opioids like fentanyl not shrank are causing the majority of overdose deaths, schrank makes the drugs it's combined with more deadly, and the numbers point to the greatest increase in xylazine positive overdose deaths in the south. north carolina, porch is your warehouse porch is my warehouse. >> so this was all delivered yesterday.

>> 77 year old diane cardin is on a mission that's deeply personal. >> this is michael, basically almost from birth up until when he passed running eccm for change, an organization in honor of her son who died of an overdose. >> it's the only needle exchange in the area for hundreds of miles. >> my son was addicted to heroin. it was really important to me to know what i could do to help him. he helped me to understand that it's not just enough to say, you know, let me get you some help. where would you like to go? would you rather do something else? you have to be able to take care of the whole person. >> what has being able to start asking for change meant for you? has it helped you heal? >> yeah, i think so. i feel like that i'm contributing something to an underserved population here and at the same time honoring my son. >> you're wrapping up a community over there? yeah.

>> wrap it up. yes. every day. once a day or twice. and then right here. >> diane, does much of this work on her own and out of her own pocket. serves nearly 100 people who use drugs weekly. she says they're alarmed at the tranq creeping into their supply. >> and they're saying, i don't want that because they're afraid of what the side effects are. if the participants come in and want us to test their drug, we're able to take it, test it and then send it to you and see. so they can tell us exactly what's in it. >> yeah, that'd be perfect. that'd be good. thank you, ma'am. okay. >> and that box there is has a few in it. >> the demand for testing is so great, even neighboring counties send samples here. >> they give us this handy dandy tape to wrap around. it just to make sure it's good and closed. >> what we're finding is 20 to 23% of what we send in does have xylazine in it. >> we have samples coming from two dozen programs in north carolina, every corner of the

state. but we also have samples coming from about 110 programs across the country. >> dr. nibaran dasgupta, a leading drug researcher, launched the street drug analysis lab at uncw chapel hill in 2020. it's literally like an old school city. >> they literally have a fort knox for all the controlled substances. >> the kids that diane and her team send get processed. here we have. why are these places sending you samples? >> i mean, the drug supply right now is so variable that there's a genuine need to know what people are actually taking samples of street drugs, flooding in from 29 states and counting in this set of packages . >> we've got samples that come from michigan often and come from florida. we work directly with harm reduction programs and health departments who can message the results back and provide individuals with support services. >> so this one is expected to be xylazine and the sensations that are being described is that it causes a heavy sedation.

>> this is the instrument and it can separate and identify the components in a mixture. it's incredibly sensitive and specific results are added to the lab's website daily keeping states and community groups up to date with the amount of traffic on the street when it comes to sort of this uptick in trunk, where do you think it goes from here? >> we already see it showing up with with methamphetamine. we see xylazine spreading from the opioids to stimulants. and we expect that will happen more and more. we do know that people are dying with xylazine in their bodies at the time of autopsy. we don't know what a toxic amount of xylazine is. >> dr. dasgupta believes the cutting edge effort can help save lives. >> all the information we get beforehand is only when it's too late. when people are either arrested or they're dead. and those information systems are too slow for public health. how is housing shifted? >> the landscape so that we are

once again behind the curve? >> i think we were caught flat footed with xylazine. it's really impacting how people get medical care and how people recover from addiction. the wounds are are because they're so dramatic looking. a lot of drug treatment centers won't let people in with those wounds. so then you have folks caught in this catch 22, right? while the medical community is still researching the impact trank has on people, experts like dr. dasgupta agree that it's complicating an already dire overdose crisis that's killing more than 100,000 americans every year. so i've been studying overdose for 20 years. and like every couple of years i was like, wow, this is as bad as it's going to get right? and then the overdoses went up another six fold, seven fold. as a society, we we've had too many empty seats at thanksgiving. we've had too many people missing from our lives. we have to admit that 100,000 people a year dying is not okay. we need to be open to new solutions or else we're just not going to get

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