20-03-2025
When ‘tranq' takes its toll
Poisoned
Xylazine is for animals, but chances are that it's laced into the street drugs where you live – and it can cost users their memories, limbs and lives. How did it come to Canada, and what's being done about it?
Kathryn Blaze Baum, Andrea Woo, Kristy Kirkup and Alanna Smith
Toronto, vancouver, ottawa and calgary
The Globe and Mail
Published 32 minutes ago
Michael Bonneau of Vancouver, with Rufus the dog, has an hours-long gap in his memory from the day he inadvertently smoked what he now believes was 'tranq dope.' Somehow, he had acquired a head wound and lost the money in his wallet. 'It's scary, because I don't remember any of it,' he says.
Jesse Winter/The Globe and Mail
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