Xylazine

Street drugs are being cut with a potent sedative, but criminalizing it may worsen Philly's addiction crisis

Philly health department is beefing up response to powerful vet tranquilizer

Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly's street fentanyl supply

The drop in overdose deaths may be the result of more veterinary tranquilizers – and less fentanyl – in street drugs

Drug Overdose Deaths

Philly hospitals test new strategy for 'tranq dope' withdrawal – and it keeps patients from walking out before their treatment is done

Tranq Dope Withdrawal

Philly's 'dope' is ever changing, and that poses challenges for health care workers on the front lines

drugs front line medicine

Fatal overdoses fell slightly in the U.S. last year, but fentanyl still poses a big threat

Drug users and unhoused people consider their next paths ahead of city's crackdown in Kensington

Kensington Addiction Homelessness

As fentanyl increasingly taints cocaine and other stimulants, drug testing strips are needed to save lives, officials say

drug test strips

Fentanyl withdrawal is driving more opioid users to leave hospitals early, Penn researchers say

Fentanyl Patients Hospitals

White House plan targets xylazine, the animal sedative now commonly found in Philly's drug supply

Pennsylvania to make animal sedative xylazine a schedule III drug

White House gives xylazine unprecedented 'emerging threat' designation

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