New York Post
Melanie Cox’s mammoth sore had gotten worse – much worse.
It started as a hot, puffy spot between her thumb and index finger, where she’d been injecting heroin for nearly two decades.
But soon, the lesion bloated into a grotesque, brownish-green slug.
It wasn’t the heroin that had rotted Cox’s flesh away.
It was the animal sedative known as “tranq,” which has infected every facet of the drug game and left healthcare workers bewildered and addicts reeling from its shocking side effects.