It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about ...

The life-threatening drug, medetomidine, has been found in 457 drug seizures in the third quarter of this year, a surge from ...

Jacqueline M. McMillan, Elizabeth Aitken and Jayna M. Holroyd-Leduc The appropriate assessment and management of chronic insomnia is crucial. Insomnia affects quality of life and has been shown to be ...

About a dozen states are experiencing a surge in emergency department visits related to a new combination of fentanyl and a sedative 100 to 200 times more potent than xylazine, The New York Times ...

Xylazine is a sedative that's only approved for use in animals, but now it is showing up in illegal street drugs up and down the East Coast. WBUR's Martha Bebinger reports that it may be contributing ...

Sedative-, hypnotic-, or anxiolytic- (SHA-) related disorders include SHA intoxication, SHA withdrawal, and SHA-use disorder. These disorders result from abuse of a class of medications known as ...

A powerful veterinary sedative called medetomidine was found in two drug samples collected following a mass overdose earlier this month in Baltimore's Penn North community, Baltimore City Health ...

It extends the feeling of an opiate high. It's hard to detect and can't be reversed by medications like Narcan. It's immediately recognizable by the gruesome, scaly wounds that emerge on users' skin, ...

New York health officials warn a highly potent synthetic sedative has been detected in the state’s illicit drug supply, ...

Benzodiazepines, opioid analgesics, and other sedatives have indispensable medical uses; however, they can also stimulate the reward center in the brain. In susceptible individuals, this can lead to ...

A black Labrador retriever's hilariously glazed reaction to veterinary sedation has captivated Instagram, with a video of her post-op car ride gathering more than 24.5 million views. The viral clip ...