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The animal tranquilizers xylazine and medetomidine are in approximately one-third of the illegal opioids available in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin and oxycodone. Animal tranquilizers enhance the user's euphoric high ...
Apr 7, 2025
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Philadelphia's street opioid supply—or "dope" market—is constantly changing. As health care workers and researchers who care for people who use drugs in our community, we have witnessed these shifts firsthand.
Mar 26, 2025
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Researchers at the 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 drug supply at the U.S.–Mexico ...
Mar 20, 2025
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In Philadelphia, fatal overdoses are the No. 3 cause of death after heart disease and cancer. That's been the case each year since 2016, except in 2020 and 2021 when COVID-19 deaths outpaced overdose deaths. The vast majority ...
Mar 17, 2025
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As much as half of the fentanyl sold on Philly's streets contains an industrial chemical used in plastics manufacturing. That's according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected in Philadelphia's Kensington ...
Mar 6, 2025
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A new study examining the treatment of xylazine-associated wounds in Philadelphia sheds light on the severe medical complications and health care challenges caused by the widespread presence of the drug in the city's illicit ...
Feb 17, 2025
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After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.
Feb 11, 2025
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In the early hours of September 14, 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin.
Feb 10, 2025
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The UK government on Wednesday banned the flesh-rotting so-called zombie drug xylazine as it tries to tackle deaths from narcotics and crack down on criminal gangs.
Jan 15, 2025
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A recent study published in the Harm Reduction Journal documents the arrival of xylazine to the San Diego-Tijuana border region, and shows the efforts of local physicians to address this emerging challenge in the nation's ...
Jan 9, 2025
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