We are seeing at the larger university hospitals around Philadelphia daily, if not weekly, these patients with these problems ...

Xylazine, a potent animal tranquilizer, has been wreaking havoc across the US, contributing to a surge in overdose deaths and severe health crises. Commonly referred to as "tranq," the sedative is ...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida has filed to reclassify xylazine as a Schedule I controlled substance, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday. Xylazine is an animal tranquilizer known ...

A tranquilizer commonly referred to as a "zombie drug" is being manufactured and smuggled across the U.S. southern border, according to a doctor who has spent years studying it. The drug xylazine, ...

A dangerous animal sedative called Xylazine is causing a crisis in the US and UK. Often mixed with fentanyl, it intensifies ...

A dangerous veterinary tranquilizer known as Tranq is rapidly spreading through Los Angeles, alarming public health experts and federal agents who say the drug, when mixed with fentanyl, is driving a ...

In a Havana park, in broad daylight, a young man walks erratically, shuffling his feet with a vacant stare, like a zombie. It’s the effect of “el químico,” the synthetic drug that has set off alarms ...

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.