State and local officials are ramping up efforts to combat xylazine, commonly called “tranq,” by monitoring its spread, distributing test strips, and pushing to “schedule” it, meaning classify it as a controlled substance.
A rural county’s choice: Use opioid funds to pay off debt, or pay them forward to curb crisis
More than $50 billion in settlement funds is being delivered to thousands of state and local governments from companies accused of flooding their communities with opioid painkillers that have left millions addicted or dead.
For two decades the federal government limited access to buprenorphine, a medication that addiction experts consider the gold standard for treating patients with opioid use disorder.
As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizers arrive in Kensington so do alarming health challenges
Dealers are using xylazine, which is uncontrolled by the federal government and cheap, to cut fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin.
Oscar-nominated doc All the Beauty and the Bloodshed confronts Sackler family’s role in OxyContin