Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adulterants such as xylazine, medetomidine and now BTMPS are common in Philly's street fentanyl. Juan Pablo Pino/AFP via Getty ...

In 2023, Mark T. Eager advertised free samples of “China White Synthetic Heroin” on the darknet, hoping to build his customer ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Exactly a year after KOB 4 warned you about a new concern with the fentanyl crisis, our state is now seeing it play out in our communities. The Department of Health has confirmed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illicit fentanyl, the driving force behind the U.S. overdose epidemic, is increasingly being used in conjunction with ...

NOTIFIED OF THE THREAT. IT IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCING XYLAZINE, ALSO KNOWN AS TRANQ, WAS FOUND IN SAMPLES OF FENTANYL IN NEW MEXICO FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Prohibition of drugs simply doesn't work. Clamping down on Percocet and Vicodin resulted in a surge in heroin use. Fentanyl took care of that market and now even worse drugs called nitazenes are being ...

LOS ANGELES — An industrial chemical used in plastic products has been cropping up in illegal drugs from California to Maine, a sudden and puzzling shift in the drug supply that has alarmed health ...

The synthetic opioid cychlorphine has been detected in three drug samples in Rhode Island since the start of the year.

This summer, Dan Ciccarone, a physician and street drug researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, sent a team to gather data on the city's streets in areas where illicit fentanyl has ...

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 ...