Public health and law enforcement officials are seeing fentanyl combined with highly potent substances that increase overdose ...

A massive federal takedown of 33 alleged members of the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization in October was one of the biggest in years. With the dozens arrested and this violent drug market ...

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.

Experts are warning about nitazenes — synthetic opioids with different, deadly strains — that can be hidden in other drugs A synthetic opioid that’s 43 times stronger than fentanyl and 250 times ...

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 ...

As the social service providers handed out fruit snacks and water bottles on Thursday, down the block from a needle exchange on Berkeley’s University Avenue, they asked passers-by an unusual question: ...

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 ...

Oysters on common street drugs move strangely, eat less and die younger, researchers found. Scientists administered drugs to oyster larvae in dishes to better understand how drugs found in surface ...

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