Unconscious person found near busy St. Louis intersection, St. Louis MO

The drug fentanyl epidemic in St. Louis is changing, xylazine or known as “tranq / tranq dope”, which is a veterinary sedative for particularly horses, is being cut into the drug supply, dramatically replacing/cutting into street fentanyl. The big difference between fentanyl and xylazine is that it is not an opioid it is a sedative (not meant for human use but for large animals) so we are going to continue to see more and more unconscious people on the street, this should be alarming specifically because winter weather is only going to continue to get colder and because narcan does not work on xylazine because it’s not an opioid. xylazine also causes necrosis of the flesh when the person develops any kind of wound or cut, if you look at other major cities across the country you’ll see plenty of videos, reports, and cases of people having parts of their limbs either completely wasted away or having to be amputated. I don’t know the solution to this devastating epidemic in our country.