Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for ...
Many surgeons recommend giving up smoking, alcohol, or drugs before surgery, but researchers have found this may also ...
It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about ...
Medication for opioid use disorder can save lives. But fewer than half of jails surveyed across the country provide it, a new study found. A National Institutes of Health study published Tuesday ...
Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...
Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce the familiar rush ...
Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The era of “tranq” may be ending. But tranq, as the powerful veterinary tranquilizer xylazine is known in the illicit drug supply, is being ...
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Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative, and if used by humans, it causes almost instant blackouts and life-threatening ...
In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who had been in remission for at least 1 year, immunosuppressant withdrawal was noninferior to glucocorticoid withdrawal, with no significant ...