Analysts at New Hampshire's state crime lab estimate they’re finding it in about 15% of the fentanyl they test. Health workers are seeing similar symptoms in people across New Hampshire, and they suspect the cause is a substance called xylazine - an animal tranquilizer that's increasingly finding its way into street drugs across the country. “And over time, they actually grew in size and got bigger,” he said. The round, scabby sores looked almost like cigarette burns. Strange skin wounds have also appeared on his hand and arm, in places he wasn’t injecting. Weddle, who is 33, has been living on the street, where passing out suddenly can be dangerous. It’ll knock him out immediately, and he won’t wake up for hours. Lately, he’s noticed that some heroin has an unusual effect on him. “But unfortunately I’m on the flip side of it now.” “I’m typically proud to be in recovery,” he said. Since then, he’s gone back and forth between relapse and recovery. But moving out on his own was harder than he thought. He first came to Manchester about four years ago to live in a sober house, and did well there. Nate Weddle has struggled with heroin addiction for years.
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