Public health and law enforcement officials are seeing fentanyl combined with highly potent substances that increase overdose ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new sedative used in veterinary medicine is showing up in street drugs, leading to severe health complications and frequent ...
Call 911 immediately if someone turns blue or appears to stop breathing. Narcan is effective for some drug overdoses and not for others. Its effects can last between 30 and 90 minutes. Some people ...
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The FBI announced on Friday that 33 people have been indicted following a raid targeting the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization in the Kensington section of ...
People huddle in a doorway next to the city's Medical Respite & Sobering Center near Eighth and Mission streets on April 10, 2025. Photo by Gustavo Hernandez. When Theris Coats failed to make it from ...
Police and neighborhood denizens mingled at the opening of the 'Triage Center' at Sixth and Jesse streets on Feb. 7, 2025. The 'Triage Center' closed in June and the space was briefly repurposed into ...
A new sedative used in veterinary medicine is showing up in street drugs, leading to severe health complications and frequent intensive care unit admissions, local emergency physicians warn.