A group of men are passed out after using drugs in Los Angeles on April 10, 2024. Animal tranquilizer medetomidine is being frequently added to fentanyl to ...

A powerful drug used primarily by veterinarians to sedate animals is increasingly showing up in Toronto's unregulated drug ...

Hamilton Public Health has issued a drug alert after a spike in contaminated fentanyl overdoses. The alert states there has been an increase in EMS calls for suspected drug poisonings between January ...

Winter respite staff say the medetomidine is causing severe abdominal pain, vomiting and other symptoms, and leading to more ambulance calls.

Physicians aren’t sure how to treat the growing number of patients who take opioids laced with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, because of its slim number of withdrawal treatments, The Philadelphia ...

The pill looked real."Well, I’m not doing heroin, I’m doing pills,” said Glen McMillin, lead field supervisor, Columbiana County Mobile Response Team.That sente ...

An overdose prevention nonprofit is warning visitors to Orlando this weekend to remain vigilant about their use of party drugs, especially at the three-day Electrical Daisy Carnival, following the ...

Ahead of Chuseok, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety urged the need to raise awareness of drugs through family interest and conversation. This is because the elderly may abuse sleeping pills, ...

Pittsburgh-area doctors are sounding the alarm on medetomidine, a veterinary tranquilizer that’s increasingly permeating street drugs like “flysky” in Western Pennsylvania. And it’s not abating ...