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

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for ...

Health officials began receiving alerts from hospitals in April of last year about patients arriving with unusually low heart ...

A synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl is increasingly ...

Fewer Philadelphians are dying from drug overdoses, according to new city data released Wednesday, which shows a decline in fatalities for the first time in five years. Data from the Philadelphia ...

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 ...

Dozens of new police officers are hitting the streets of Philadelphia's most notorious neighborhood, promising to crack down on drug dealing, prostitution and other crimes. But one man who used to ...

PHILADELPHIA — More than two dozen people have been indicted on drug-related charges as part of a yearslong investigation into a gang in Philadelphia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced ...