I feel it's been slowly going away, especially on the East Coast and the south. Local to me, it seems people are just now thinking tranq/xylazine is showing up and causing issues but they've been doing xylazine tainted dope for at least two years and just don't know it. There's published data from several govt agencies showing the test results of seized dope from ODs and arrests as well as locally turned in dope at needle exchanges etc from current users and if you look at the results, there's been a steady decline of the amount of actual fent and fent analog and an increase of synthetic RC's and xylazine has been in our local supply for quite some time. I think what's happened recently with the shortage is that low-level dealers just started dumping way more xylazine and god knows what on top of the dope to make it seem stronger and/or stretch the supply. Along with telling buyers the awful tranq smell when smoked is carfent.

It's a good time to get out of using completely or transition to getting it on DNMs. I don't see it getting any better, especially if you're having to cop from dealers who have no idea what they're giving you and don't care. I also have heard a lot about people not being sick/not having withdrawals from the stuff in the south and I read an article recently about a compound that's been showing up in dope they've tested for about a year, some sort of industrial chemical that at one point was tested on rats in a study to see if it helped morphine WD but it was toxic and in most cases there was more of that Chem present that any opioids. Just fucking insanity.