Panel urges more vigilance over drug supply contaminants

Use of street drug ‘tranq’ grows in Bay State, panel finds, including in WMass

SPRINGFIELD — Their telltale postures take on different names in law enforcement circles: the “leaners,” “zombie walkers” and the “fentanyl fold.”Users of heroin, fentanyl and xylazine, or “tranq dope,” walk in a notably slumped-over fashion, police say.

Panel urges more vigilance over drug supply contaminants

The Commission on Public Health Effects of Xylazine issued its 61-page final report with suggestions for how to address public health concerns associated with the proliferation of xylazine, a cheap veterinary sedative that is usually found in fentanyl.