A powerful veterinary tranquilizer showing up in the street drug supply is putting new pressure on hospitals and treatment centers in Western Pennsylvania, according to local doctors and providers.

In March 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved naloxone as a nonprescription nasal spray to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

Health officials say a veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine, also known as "tranq," is showing up in illegal drugs like the powerful opioid fentanyl, stirring issues in the medical community, as ...

GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Local non-profit Tapestry Health is warning more than half of all illegal drugs tested in our area are coming up positive with an animal tranquilizer. It comes with updated ...

CHAIN. THERE’S A NEW DRUG HITTING OUR STREETS CALLED FLY SKY. BUT OFFICIALS GATHERED AT THE PARK BEHIND ME TO GIVE OUT THESE OVERDOSE PREVENTION KITS. IT HAS THINGS INSIDE, LIKE NARCAN, A PEN THAT ...

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 ...

Exposed tendons and bones. Wounds that attract maggots. A foul smell from dead tissue. Even as more potent drugs have hit the streets, the flesh-rotting animal tranquilizer xylazine is still wreaking ...

Drug overdose deaths have been dropping precipitously at the local and national level, new statistics show. But the data does not capture the intensified symptoms complicating withdrawal management in ...

The animal tranquilizers xylazine and medetomidine are in approximately one-third of the illegal opioids available in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin and oxycodone. Animal tranquilizers enhance ...