Xylazine, also known by the street name “Tranq,” is a drug intended as a sedative tranquilizer for large animals like horses and cattle. The drug has no approved use in humans.
The February death of a man in San Jose has been confirmed to be Santa Clara County’s first recorded xylazine-related death, according to the SCC Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office.
Authorities said the man who died was a 36-year-old; they did not identify him in a county news release sent Monday morning. The man was found unresponsive in San Jose and died in late February and the xylazine and fentanyl were found in his bloodstream through postmortem toxicology testing, according to the release.
Xylazine, also known by the street name “Tranq,” is a drug intended as a sedative tranquilizer for large animals like horses and cattle, according to the news release. The drug has no approved use in humans, but is becoming increasingly detected in illict drugs found across the nation.“This tragic event is an important alert to the community that xylazine is now present in drugs in Santa Clara County,” said Dr. Michelle Jorden, the Santa Clara County medical examiner-coroner.
Xylazine has become more widespread throughout the country in recent months. In March, the US Drug Enforcement Administration issued a Public Safety Alert, warning that the xylazine and fentanyl mixtures had been seized in 48 of the 50 states. The agency said that approximately 23% of fentanyl powder and 7% of fentanyl pills seized by the DEA in 2022 contained xylazine.to classify xylazine as a schedule III controlled substance alongside drugs such as ketamine and anabolic steroids.
Though xylazine has opioid-like effects and is often mixed with fentanyl, it isn’t an opioid and therefore its effects aren’t reversed by naloxone, commonly known by the brand name Narcan. Narcan has been increasingly stocked in public places for emergency use to counteract opioid overdoses.
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