One of this week's patients had an unfamiliar diagnosis.
About four months ago, the Beverly Police Department received dreaded but expected news. Two samples of suspected fentanyl the city submitted to Brandeis University’s Street Check program had tested ...
Demand for wound care services has surged across the Philadelphia region over the last five years in response to the rise of the animal tranquilizer xylazine, better known by its street name, “tranq,” ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A volunteer registered nurse treats a xylazine-associated wound at a clinic in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Matt ...
As an addiction doctor, Ruth Potee says she misses heroin. It might sound tongue-in-cheek. But the state’s drug supply was safer and purer, she said, when the opioid made from morphine was the ...
A powerful animal tranquilizer-turned-dangerous street drug, xylazine — also known as “tranq” — is increasingly being mixed into New York City’s narcotics supply with deadly results, the Daily News ...
In a van parked outside a church in Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, Gerald A. Hill Sr. is preparing wound care kits for people addicted to opioids. Baltimore's harm reduction vans have long ...
I am a part-time nurse at Prevention Point Philadelphia, which is the location of the clinic that I mention in the article. Rachel McFadden is an emergency room nurse at the Hospital of the University ...