Xylazine-laced fentanyl has been found in 48 states, creating what experts call the “deadliest drug” in the U.S., which results in side effects like necrosis, amnesia, blurred vision and death.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Xylazine has been around since the early noughties as a veterinary ...

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 ...

In November, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about increasing toxicology reports showing xylazine, a veterinary sedative and pain reliever typically used in large animals, in people ...

The Biden administration labeled fentanyl mixed with a powerful animal sedative called xylazine an “emerging threat” on Wednesday — a designation aimed at prioritizing federal resources to boost ...

It's been about 3 years since Joseph D'Orazio, MD, and his colleagues at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia first noticed something different among injection drug users who came to the ...

Xylazine—a tranquilizer approved as a sedative for veterinary medical use but not for any use in humans—is currently wors e ning the opioid crisis. Known on the street as “tranq,” xylazine has become ...

Ever-changing trends in the nation's opioid epidemic have resulted in an increasingly tainted drug supply in the United States. More than ever, drug overdoses are now linked to substances that have ...

Xylazine, the animal tranquilizer that has been found mixed with opioids in most of the United States, will soon be be classified as a controlled substance in Pennsylvania. It will be a Schedule III ...

The Biden administration unveiled a plan to eliminate the growing threat of fentanyl laced with xylazine, an illegal street drug cocktail that is fueling a wave of overdose deaths. Fentanyl is an ...

A new threat has emerged in the United States' illicit drug supply: an animal tranquilizer called xylazine. The drug is showing up in synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl, leading to more ...