Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is increasingly being found in the United States' illegal drug supply and is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Jul. 10—The precipitous decline in overdose deaths last year in Massachusetts leaves us wondering what's mainly responsible for the sharp reversal of that problematic trend. For one dedicated lawmaker ...

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 ...

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 ...

From January 2021 to June 2022, most fentanyl overdoses that also involved xylazine occurred in the Northeast, according to the new CDC report. In Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, for example, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 & ...