Xylazine is a powerful drug used to sedate animals for surgery or relieve pain, but according to the CDC, it is now being used as a recreational drug.
John Moses with the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department says overdoses associated with the drug xylazine has become a concern.
“The scary thing about xylazine, which is this horse tranquilizer, is that it is not a controlled substance by the FDA because it is not approved for human use,” said Moses.”It’s a veterinarian medicine.”…