Cocaine hitting the streets of New York, Los Angeles, and other cities is now cut with a drug levamisole that can literally cause skin to rot off.

Levamisole is normally used by vets to deworm livestock. But for cocaine users, it causes damage to blood vessels under the skin, causing skin to rot off on their face and body.

According to the Department of Justice, over two-thirds of cocaine cuts in the United States are contaminated by the drug.

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