Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative mixed into fentanyl, has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities.

Once rampant in Philly's drug supply, xylazine is now on the decline after a statewide crackdown, experts tell Axios. Why it matters: The drug, known on the streets as "tranq," is being replaced by a ...

More than 130 drug cases were dismissed Friday — and hundreds more are expected to collapse in the coming months — after ...

Philadelphia’s street opioid supply – or “dope” market – is constantly changing. As health care workers and researchers who care for people who use drugs in our community, we have witnessed these ...

City officials released finalized reports Tuesday confirming that drug overdose deaths dropped slightly in 2023 and providing a more detailed picture of how the addiction crisis has been impacting ...

A monthslong investigation targeting the movement of fentanyl between Kensington and the Philadelphia suburbs led to 94 arrests and the seizure of $365,000 in narcotics since September, the ...

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NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Federal Drug Enforcement agents have a suspect in custody, who they say led police on a chase from the city's Hunting Park section to North Philadelphia. It all began ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two teen girls were sent to the hospital after they were sickened by drug-laced cookies at a school in the Overbrook Park section of Philadelphia. Police don't think the girls ...

PHILADELPHIA — More than two dozen people have been indicted on drug-related charges as part of a yearslong investigation into a gang in Philadelphia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced ...