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Shaler Police hosted a meeting for the community last night to discuss Xylazine.
It's a powerful animal tranquilizer people are mixing with other drugs resulting in problematic overdoses.
Xylazine symptoms are not directly reversed by Narcan.
Shaler Police say Xylazine has not surfaced yet in schools, but they want to do everything they can to prevent that from happening.
On the Big K Morning Show, Dr. Tom Brophy says people abusing the drug can have what look like craters on the arms and legs.
“You get these little . . . craters, these ulcerations in the skin and that’s what gives it the terminology of things like zombie drug.
Dr. Brophy, an addiction medicine specialist, says people use Xylazine to extend the high they get from other drugs