It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about ...

The powerful sedative is at the center of overdose deaths. Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer known on the street as "tranq," is a cheap and powerful sedative that's infiltrating the nation's drug ...

A new drug is appearing on the streets of New York, according to an updated health alert from the New York State Department ...

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 ...

The White House has declared that the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl combined with xylazine -- an animal tranquilizer that's increasingly being used in illicit drugs -- is an "emerging threat" ...

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 ...

As the homeless services coordinator for the city of West Palm Beach, Allie Severino works closely with people whose lives have been endangered by drug use. She has seen increasingly dangerous and ...

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 veterinarians, but now it is ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON PARISH, La. — It was a warning the Jefferson Parish coroner first alerted us to two years ago. Now, that same warning is coming from the Washington Parish Coroner after a lethal street drug ...