One of this week's patients had an unfamiliar diagnosis.

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xylazine, also known as tranq, comes in a liquid solution that can be dried into a white or brown powder and pressed into pills.

Demand for wound care services has surged across the Philadelphia region over the last five years in response to the rise of the animal tranquilizer xylazine, better known by its street name, “tranq,” ...

About four months ago, the Beverly Police Department received dreaded but expected news. Two samples of suspected fentanyl the city submitted to Brandeis University’s Street Check program had tested ...

WASHINGTON - 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 ...

What drug users and people who work with them in Philadelphia talk about is the smell. The smell of rotting flesh from open infected wounds. Some users say they feel ashamed of the state of their ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The drug Xylazine — known as "tranq" on the street- ranks among the top five deadliest drugs in East Tennessee. The drug is an animal sedative that has often been used by ...

The lab report left the prominent New York businessman stunned. The 40-something-year-old from Massapequa Park, a tony suburban village on Long Island, had dabbled in cocaine now and again, but ...

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 ...

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There’s growing urgency to stop the spread of fentanyl, which is being laced with the animal tranquilizer known as tranq. Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill said in North Carolina, the drug is mostly in ...