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George Mathias & Kieren Williams

'Horror drug sweeping America rotted my flesh and turned my skin black - I even cut my dead skin off'

A horror drug said to be sweeping America left one woman’s flesh “rotting” so badly she said she had to cut her own skin off in a macabre self-surgery.

Tracey McCann, 39, started taking xylazine - a powerful sedative normally used to tranquilise large animals - after a car crash which nearly took her life.

She suffered from chronic pain but ended up developing an addiction from the opioids which led to xylazine - and her flesh turning black.

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