“Then one day I saw another woman in Kensington. “I would get these bruises at night and my skin would turn black I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t show anyone, I just covered it up. It wasn't until five or six months after I was using it, that I started getting these wounds. The side effects of the drugs are not widely known, but for Tracey they became like something from horror film. She then developed an addiction to xylazine - also known as ‘tranq’. Doctors stopped prescribing the opioids a year after her accident by which time Tracey had become entirely dependent on them. While the pills helped her pain, she became heavily addicted to them. Wounds on Tracey's forearms after she began cutting off skin which had turned black She survived the crash but was in a coma for a month and was left with chronic pain - which saw doctors prescribed her opioids. Tracey was managing a Domino's Pizza restaurant until September 10, 2009, when she was in a horror car crash which left her brain damaged. Me and everyone around me using just thought it was strong fentanyl."
“When I took it, it was knocking me straight out for four or five hours. “Around Covid the effects of fentanyl started changing,” Tracey said.
When offered heroin by an acquaintance, she took it as she "saw no other way to cope" and she became hooked on heroin and fentanyl. Tracey was homeless when her addiction to xylazine became a "living nightmare". A postmortem found heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in his system, as well as xylazine. Now, the first death attributed to the drug in the UK has been recorded, after Karl Warburton, 48, from Solihull, West Midlands, passed away in May 2022. Xylazine - which is sweeping the US - has led to people seeing their own flesh rotting from the inside, the amputation of limbs by those affected, while at least 3,000 people per year are believed to have died from overdoses. She developed an addiction to opioids used to treat her chronic pain following a car crash which almost killed her. Tracey McCann, 39, started taking xylazine - an extremely powerful sedative normally used to tranquilize large animals.
A woman who became addicted to a "zombie drug" told how it "rotted" her flesh and turned her skin black - which saw her resort to "cutting off" her forearm skin.
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