UK government moves to ban ‘zombie drug’ xylazine

The high-strength animal sedative, xylaine, often leaves long-term users in an unresponsive state and with non-healing skin lesions.

The British government announced legislation on Wednesday to ban the so-called “zombie drug” xylazine and 21 other drugs to tackle deaths and crack down on criminal gangs.

It has increasingly been used in combination with opioids such as heroin, with traces found in cannabis vapes as well, according to the UK Home Office.Grenfell inferno ‘culmination of decades of failure’: UK inquiry The UK’s Misuse of Drugs Act sets out three separate categories for “controlled drugs”, with Class A drugs deemed the most dangerous and the most harshly punished.

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