Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A volunteer registered nurse treats skin wounds at the Savage Sisters community outreach storefront in Philadelphia. Xylazine, a ...

A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is increasingly being found in the United States’ illegal drug supply and is being linked to overdose deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control & ...

Philadelphia's drug crisis is no longer defined by a single substance or a single pattern. It is being ...

The White House is marshaling a new plan to try to beef up testing, tracking and treatment for street drugs laced with xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer that has contributed to a surge of overdose ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating ...

The Biden administration released a national response plan Tuesday to address the emerging threat of fentanyl combined with xylazine in the U.S. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy ...

The presence of xylazine didn’t have the same criminal liability that substances like fentanyl had because it wasn’t considered a controlled substance. The new law closed, what some lawmakers called, ...

Credit: Getty Images. The illicit use of xylazine has steadily increased since the early 2000s, with alarming spikes in some regions of the United States. Xylazine, also known as tranq, has been a ...

A novel study published in the journal, Clinical Chemistry, has found that it takes the human body much longer than previously thought to clear xylazine—one of the most popular emerging drugs of abuse ...

The latest threat to public health and public safety is a veterinary sedative, xylazine. Also known as “tranq,” it is increasingly present in illicit drug supplies and connected to overdoses across ...

While partly off the radar for many, the opioid crisis is still unfolding and continuing every day. There are concerns the battle is not being won because one drug or substance just replaces another, ...