PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood is known as an open air drug market. "It is the biggest open air drug market on the East Coast. You literally can just walk up on a block and cop ...

Approaching a van that distributes supplies for safer drug use in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a man named Kyle noticed an alert about xylazine. "Xylazine?" he asked, sounding out the unfamiliar word.

The opioid crisis appears to be accelerating with the addition of a noxious alternative to heroin and fentanyl: carfentanil. Most commonly sold as a powder, it is about 10,000 times stronger than ...

City officials released finalized reports Tuesday confirming that drug overdose deaths dropped slightly in 2023 and providing a more detailed picture of how the addiction crisis has been impacting ...

PHILADELPHIA (PIX11) — When PIX11 News drove to Philadelphia Tuesday — to get a firsthand look at the effects of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that was turning fentanyl addicts into zombies — we ...

Xylazine, the animal tranquilizer that has been found mixed with opioids in most of the United States, will soon be be classified as a controlled substance in Pennsylvania. It will be a Schedule III ...

The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an “emerging threat” when it's mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine. The Office of ...

NORRISTOWN, PA. (CBS) - An opioid strong enough to sedate an elephant has health officials in the area warning of the dangers. The drug is called carfentanil. "Which is a synthetic opioid that was ...