Disturbing Footage Of 'Zombie Drug' Addicts Swaying On Philadelphia Streets Goes Viral

A disturbing trend has emerged in the United States that has left communities grappling with a new and dangerous threat: the zombie drug epidemic. Xylazine, also known as "tranq", "tranq dope", and "zombie drug", has sedative-like symptoms - extreme sleepiness and respiratory depression.

Now, shocking new footage has emerged which shows zombified tranq addicts swaying on the sidewalk in Philadelphia - following presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's visit to the 'warzone' Democrat city.

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Multiple spaced-out individuals were seen buckled over, with no control of their limbs, on the trash-filled corner of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues. The Kensington neighbourhood, 'ground zero' for the city's drug epidemic, is often seen strewn with trash and addicts injecting drugs in the middle of the day.

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The viral video shot from a corner of the Kensington neighbourhood shows two people standing on the sidewalk, hunched over and eerily waving from side to side as they lean on each other with detritus scattered across the floor.

One of the individuals stands shirtless with a face mask dangling from his face, while another is barely able to hold onto a phone as their hands twitch uncontrollably. A nearby third person could be seen having trouble sitting up on a doorstep before his head and torso begin to hunch forward as well.

Another man standing beside them could be seen frozen in place, appearing to be only able to stand by propping himself up against a wall.

The video, uploaded on Thursday, ends with a fourth, dishevelled person walking slowly into the frame smoking something while his left arm could be seen wrapped in a bloody gauze.

The Kensington neighbourhood ¡ª made infamous by its open-air drug market ¡ª is no stranger to such disturbing sights following the rapid rise of the drug Xylazine, or ¡°tranq,¡± which is an animal sedative used to enhance the effects of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.

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White House recently declared it an 'emerging threat'

The drug is so potent the White House recently declared it an ¡°emerging threat,¡± with the drug capable of causing flesh to rot, earning it the nickname ¡°zombie drug.¡±

The viral video in Kensington came on the same day GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy visited the area to highlight the drug crisis.

In a video of his neighbourhood tour, Ramaswamy said the city has become inundated with needles littered across the street, urging action to fight open-drug use and homelessness in Philadelphia.

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