PhD. in Sciences, holds a Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences from the University of Marseille-Luminy and has been a long term biologist at the French CNRS's Section of Life Sciences. Currently, representative of the Foundation for a Drug Free Europe.
Xylazine is called a "zombie drug" because the users have this particular, confused, hunched and slowed move which gives them the appearance of the living dead.