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.

Melanie Cox’s mammoth sore had gotten worse – much worse. It started as a hot, puffy spot between her thumb and index finger, where she’d been injecting heroin for nearly two decades. But soon, the ...

Last week I described how easy it is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York. And how “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts. Such sites are fought over. Do they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of drug overdose deaths involving a powerful animal tranquilizer called xylazine has skyrocketed in recent years, two ...

NOTE: An earlier online version of this story misidentified Dr. Matthew Salzman of Cooper University Hospital and misattributed a quote. Jose greeted outreach workers with Camden Area Health Education ...

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 ...

There was no textbook for the volunteer training held on how to care for the severe skin wounds that are increasingly afflicting people in addiction. Inside the tiny Savage Sisters storefront on ...

Once found mainly around Philadelphia, xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that can rot flesh, is spreading throughout the U.S. The drug is known as “tranq” among some users. About 43% of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Testing kits for xylazine, the animal tranquilizer "tranq" that's often laced with opioids, could soon be coming to Philadelphia. While the tests would help decipher if the drug ...