Xylazine or “tranq” wounds – characterized by deep pockets of dead tissue – have become increasingly visible in Philadelphia among people who use drugs. Rachel McFadden is an emergency ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Drug Enforcement Agency said xylazine is a growing problem in Ohio and across the country. Xylazine is often mixed with fentanyl, but the drug is an animal tranquilizer.

The study highlights the strain on Philadelphia's health care system, with patients averaging 5.9 hospital admissions for xylazine-associated wounds, and the most extended hospital stay was 75 ...

Researchers are trying to recruit 900 people across North Carolina who misuse drugs to study the impact of xylazine.

She recommended cheap xylazine test strips be made available, healthcare providers taught to be aware of the signs that chronic skin ulcers are due to xylazine use, and pathologists and coroners ...

Stawasz said in the most recent update from the state's the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Xylazine and Carfentanil were reported to be both "present and contributory" in over a dozen drugs ...

OR XYLAZINE. IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR ... AND UNLIKE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, CROHN’S DISEASE CAUSES ULCERS IN THE INTESTINE AND IT CAN CAUSE COMPLICATIONS LIKE INTESTINAL BLOCKAGES ...

MORE ABOUT THE DRUG. IN THE BATTLE AGAINST ADDICTION. XYLAZINE ADDS AN EXTRA LAYER TO THE OPIOID CRISIS IN 2023. UNDER THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT, THE TRANQUILIZER WAS DECLARED A SCHEDULE THREE ...

and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have reintroduced the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at curbing the illegal use of xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer increasingly used as a ...