Before xylazine, most of the wounds we treated were skin infections like abscesses. These conditions develop when a bit of bacteria gets under the skin and a pocket of infection forms. When ...

Mostly seen on the East Coast in places like Philadelphia, xylazine was created to be used in veterinary offices as a ...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is warning Americans about a sharp rise in the trafficking of fentanyl mixed with xylazine, a powerful animal sedative tranquilizer. The combination has be ...

Chronic xylazine use may also present with severe, necrotic skin lesions, which have distinctive differences from more common infections, like abscess or cellulitis, placing the patient at risk of ...

Xylazine (ZY-leh-zeen) is a tranquilizer used by veterinarians. It is not approved for use in humans. It's sometimes used as a street drug when mixed with other drugs (mainly fentanyl) to increase the ...

WITH MANSLAUGHTER. A SEMINOLE COUNTY LAWMAKER FILED A BILL TO IMPOSE PENALTIES FOR TRAFFICKING XYLAZINE, WHICH IS A DRUG KNOWN ON THE STREETS AS TRANQ OR THE ZOMBIE DRUG. WESH TWO DAVID JONES ...

The UK government on Wednesday banned the flesh-rotting so-called zombie drug xylazine as it tries to tackle deaths from narcotics and crack down on criminal gangs. The high-strength animal ...