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.

(WHTM) — Police are warning the public about a deadly new additive being found in street drugs. The new chemical, called “Tinuvin 7-70”, is being used as a cutting agent in fentanyl. It is an ...

Experts say Biden's focus on addiction health care saved tens of thousands of lives and slowed fentanyl smuggling. Trump ...

Emergency departments across the Pittsburgh region are reporting a growing number of patients experiencing severe and ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Reforms in a bill that could clear the Legislature Thursday would “dramatically” improve efforts to monitor street-level drug supplies for dangerous contaminants, according to one ...

People huddle in a doorway next to the city's Medical Respite & Sobering Center near Eight and Mission streets on April 10, 2025. Photo by Gustavo Hernandez. When Theris Coats failed to make it from ...

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 ...

A synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl is increasingly ...

The landscape of street drugs looked a lot different when University of Washington research professor Caleb Banta-Green began his career in drug epidemiology 20 years ago. There were just seven ...

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 ...

Police and neighborhood denizens mingled at the opening of the 'Triage Center' at Sixth and Jesse streets on Feb. 7, 2025. Photo by Abigail Van Neely. The four-month pilot of a triage center on Sixth ...