To amputate or save a limb? Philly’s tranq crisis is forcing doctors to make difficult choices amid a slow public health ...

Tranq, also known as xylazine, is a powerful animal tranquilizer now being mixed into street drugs, with horrifying consequences. Users develop open wounds, rotting flesh, and a zombie-like stupor.

One person dies of a drug overdose every five minutes in America. More than 70,000 people a year are already being killed by the opioid Fentanyl. This drug is now being mixed with something even ...

UPMC has created a blueprint for treating patients experiencing gruesome side effects from drugs laced with xylazine.

including flesh-rotting wounds. Xylazine has changed the treatment landscape for addiction medicine specialists who must contend with overdose symptoms that may not respond to established care ...