PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Testing kits for xylazine, the animal tranquilizer "tranq" that's often laced with opioids, could soon be coming to Philadelphia. While the tests would help decipher if the drug ...

After just 15 minutes on the streets of Philadelphia's Kensington neighbourhood, an encounter that was everything. It was illustrative of a crisis out of control, it was reflective of a profound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s growing urgency to stop the spread of fentanyl, which is being laced with the animal tranquilizer known as tranq.

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 ...

An animal tranquilizer prevalent in the eastern U.S. for years has been found in high quantities among drug users in Tijuana, concerning UC San Diego researchers that the illegal anesthetic could soon ...

Tranq — a k a xylazine, the so-called zombie drug that leaves users psychotic and covered with open, rotting wounds — is taking over New York’s drug supply. As the DEA agent who oversees operations in ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- You may have heard about the street drug "tranq." It's an animal tranquilizer mixed with fentanyl. Now, there is a new CDC warning about a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of drug overdose deaths involving a powerful animal tranquilizer called xylazine has skyrocketed in recent years, two ...

Unimaginable pain and restlessness. Vomiting so frequent and forceful that it can perforate the esophagus. Blood pressure and heart rate so high that they damage the heart. Sweating that drenches ...

In the early 2010s a nightmarish new drug spread across Russia and Eastern Europe. Krokodil, a cheap substitute for heroin cooked up in kitchen laboratories, left users with scaly skin and rotting ...

States are increasingly looking to restrict access to an animal tranquilizer showing up in supplies of illicit drugs and contributing to a growing number of human overdose deaths.Pennsylvania’s ...