VIDEO – AIN’T NO CURE FOR THE SUMMERTIME BLUES –
Feb. 14, 2024 – “It scares us just as much as it scares you,” ASAC Giordano tells Channel 11 News. “Do not think that this can’t happen here because it’s already here. We have to be out there in front of the mothers who are losing their children, in front of the fathers losing children, in front of the schools, telling these people this isn’t a scare tactic.” Deadly doses of Xylazine, often mixed with fentanyl, and sometimes pressed into a tiny pill, are killing people. And one pill can kill.
“Suburban kids, high school kids, early teens, they’re not thinking anything of it because they’re taking a pill and they think a pill isn’t going to kill like something injected into your bloodstream will,” ASAC Giordano added.
Xylazine is a powerful animal sedative used in veterinary settings on large animals like horses. In humans, it can be deadly. Xylazine is also known as ‘Tranq’ or the ‘Zombie drug,’ because it eats away at human flesh.
“It’s made for an animal 20 times the size of a human,” Giordano says. “It’s usually being purchased on the dark web, coming from places like China or other counties where it’s easier to get.”
Michele Osteen lost her son, Ari to an overdose of fentanyl laced with Xylazine.
“People think it’s not going to happen to them,” Osteen said. “I was one of them.”
Osteen says her son became addicted to opiates after a sports injury.
“On a Sunday afternoon, he went out and he purchased what he thought was an opiate,” Osteen said. “It was fentanyl times six. The last thing he said to me at night was, ‘I love you mom. I’ll see you in the morning,’ but he never came down.”
