An emergency physician and nurse scientist explain what medetomidine is and how to respond if someone is overdosing on it.

Prolonged consumption of xylazine also causes skin lesions around the injection sites. The risk increases if users also take methamphetamine, which is extremely common among heroin addicts.

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 20 (UPI) --The presence of xylazine, a horse tranquilizer increasingly found mixed with fentanyl in supplies of illegal drugs, is spreading to the U.S.-Mexico border area ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Xylazine, a veterinary anesthetic not approved for human use, has been detected in the illicit drug supply at the U.S.–Mexico border, particularly in Tijuana ...

A Rancho Cucamonga woman was arrested after a 10-year-old child died from fentanyl and xylazine toxicity, authorities said. The incident happened in December 2024 in Rancho Cucamonga.

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 ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Prevencasa free clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, have confirmed the presence of xylazine in the illicit ...