Mariana van Zeller

Yeah, that's right, an animal tranquilizer.

Yeah.

So we were there in a small clinic in Kensington, Pennsylvania, which is ground zero for Trankto.

Trankto, what it does is it's fentanyl mixed with the animal tranquilizer.

And what it does is the fentanyl gives you a really high, but unlike heroin, the high goes away very fast.

So they figured out a new drug that they could mix there, which is a tranquilizer that allows that high to stay high longer, which is ultimately what every user, drug user usually is after.

And so they started using it, and they didn't even know there was tranquilizer in it.

They just realized, oh, this is a good high, let's keep using this, right?

But what they didn't know, most people didn't, it's a new sort of medical phenomenon.

Nobody has studied this because it's so new and it's never shown up anywhere because nobody is willingly using horse tranquilizer on themselves, is that it creates these horrible wounds that look like leprosy.

Essentially, I don't know if you've seen films of, like, leprosy back in the day when it was still big in India.

It looks like that.

It's like big open wounds with like pus coming out.

And it's just one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.

In this case, we were in this clinic run by these sort of volunteers, amazing people who are dressing the wounds and unwrapping.

And we were seeing them doing this to dozens of people and asking if we could film.

This woman agreed to be filmed.

And we see this amazing guy.

who is doing, again, volunteering his time and opening up this wound.

He's not, no medical training, but he's learned himself how to do it.