i ve been out here for a long time. i m a people know me. i so like he s been here when, like tranq started being in the supply, right? yeah can the whole transition go from real heroin to trying confetti and. it really it really changed a lot of people s habits, styles is a powerful sedative not approved for use in humans can cause users to be motionless for hours, even days in rooms that won t heal and that can become necrotic. doctors don t yet know why removed £7 of flesh and a leader and a half to pass. it s been open for 21 months. that s how it was frank sugars. will not be here. and kensington, the main avenue runs under the elevated train on many of the corners, you can buy drugs. on the side streets and in the park people without homes, live and
my second one is what we call a runner. somebody comes down from the county and they want to know where the good stuff is. you know, some people would say, hey, i need i want a bag of coke. but like i don t want that salts or, you know, somebody would say, hey, i want shrank. but i want a little bit of fentanyl now, and i would just know that from being down here, so i said, hey, i ll take it but you know you re going to have to look out for me. wow kind of like, uh, tourist guide 100% like a tourist guide, a middleman of copping drugs for sure. so now what s the differentiator? if trunks and everything. oh i don t probably just which ones are heavier with the tranq and which ones are least frankie. the nurses at savage sisters used their experience with addiction to care for people who come in my feet. great brains there. maybe a little bit of people come in here where you re like, dude, you gotta go to the hospital all the time. it s really hard. scary you know you re going to the ho
fentanyl supply is cut with an animal tranquilizer called psilocybin or tranq. honest i really didn t notice the change . it was just terrible wasn t doing anything for me in the lord. you build a tolerance for everything eventually and never gonna tracking heroin disappear altogether. i made a cheaper easier to get. not just killing everybody, just drink, give you the same feeling. that s it. knowledge no warm and fuzzy from final drink, which is sleep get free. frank was found in over 90% of the dope samples tested in philadelphia, and it s spreading to other cities on the east coast. in 2021. it was detected in 34% of overdose deaths in philadelphia. users did not want silas scene but now they re addicted to it. okay, so someone told me you re a real o g out here was that mean original gangster? okay? yeah.
challenge of evolution of these drugs supply. and then we re gonna protect lives first and foremost be just last year s i lysine was in 23% of fentanyl powder 7% of fentanyl pills, according to the d e a. so this is something that we re watching closely and it s on the rise so we can expect to hear more from the white house in the coming days. abby yeah. very disturbing their jacqueline howard. thank you very much. combining this tranquilizer with fentanyl complicates an already very dangerous situation. cnn s reeve took to the streets of philadelphia to learn more about the impact of this tranq dope on people there. frank says bad. and i did this only one of the first victims out here with this kind of ship. the opioid crisis has been going on for a long time. but in philly, the problem has shifted. most of the street