Melanie Cox’s mammoth sore had gotten worse – much worse. It started as a hot, puffy spot between her thumb and index finger, where she’d been injecting heroin for nearly two decades. But soon, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the homeless services coordinator for the city of West Palm Beach, Allie Severino works closely with people whose lives have ...

The Summit County Public Health Department's harm reduction clinics provide free test strips like these which can show whether the street drugs you're taking, from cocaine and meth to marijuana and ...

As Los Angeles prepares for a “tsunami” of overdoses from flesh-eating drug tranq, one addict told The Post of the intense highs and lows of taking the animal tranquilizer. Shawn, who said tranq mixed ...

WARNING: This story contains graphic images. PHILADELPHIA — A tranq epidemic is already plaguing a neighborhood in the City of Brotherly Love, coating users with gruesome flesh wounds or killing them ...

In the early 2010s a nightmarish new drug spread across Russia and Eastern Europe. Krokodil, a cheap substitute for heroin cooked up in kitchen laboratories, left users with scaly skin and rotting ...

An animal tranquilizer prevalent in the eastern U.S. for years has been found in high quantities among drug users in Tijuana, concerning UC San Diego researchers that the illegal anesthetic could soon ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The drug Xylazine — known as "tranq" on the street- ranks among the top five deadliest drugs in East Tennessee. The drug is an animal sedative that has often been used by ...

There was no textbook for the volunteer training held on how to care for the severe skin wounds that are increasingly afflicting people in addiction. Inside the tiny Savage Sisters storefront on ...

Once found mainly around Philadelphia, xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that can rot flesh, is spreading throughout the U.S. The drug is known as “tranq” among some users. About 43% of ...

Opioid addict Martin has seen the deadly fentanyl replace heroin as the most prevalent drug in New York. Now he's trying to avoid "tranq," a flesh-eating drug increasingly causing concern across ...

A recent tranq episode at our center left a strong impression on many of us. When a patient arrived for his treatment, we gave him the same physical exam that all of our new residents receive. When he ...