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The United States announced Tuesday a crackdown on unlawful imports of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer known as the "zombie drug" and which is increasingly linked to overdose deaths. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the percentage of all drug overdose deaths involving xylazine increased from two percent to 26 percent in the northeast state of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2020.

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