New US street drug 'Tranq Dope' rotting people's skin

Warning: Video contains images of drug use and open wounds.

A Sky News special report has found a new street drug in America called 'Tranq Dope', a mixture of Fentanyl and a veterinary tranquiliser Xylazine, is rotting the flesh of people who use it.

In Philadelphia, sold for a few dollars a bag, the deadly drug is baffling doctors who race to treat 'zombified' users and their open skin wounds.

This new drug is compounding the overdose crisis in America – where more than seventy thousand people die every year from Fentanyl.

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