CBS3 interviewed Joseph D’Orazio, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, for a segment about xylazine, also known as Tranq, an animal sedative that has been increasingly found in fentanyl and heroin and that causes fast-moving necrotic wounds and heavy sedation.
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