It's believed the idea to mix xylazine — known as "tranq" — into the heroin and fentanyl supply started in Puerto Rico before the animal sedative turned up in Philadelphia. Xylazine is now in 90 ...

On the streets of Philadelphia - the ground zero of America’s opioid crisis - a new street drug is baffling doctors. Public ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study examining the treatment of xylazine-associated wounds in Philadelphia sheds light on the severe medical complications and health care challenges caused by the widespread presence of the ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — A Florida-based veterinary drug supplier was sentenced in federal court after admitting it illegally funneled huge quantities of the powerful sedative xylazine into the interstate ...

"God ain’t got no power over this hit. God got no power here." The man gestured like a royal but the scene he revealed was the largest open drug-air market on the East Coast — the Kensington ...

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 ...

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 ...