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 ...

UPMC is one of the first health systems to write a blueprint for treating patients experiencing gruesome side effects from drugs laced with xylazine. Xylazine is not an opioid. It's an animal ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Xylazine or “tranq” wounds – characterized by deep pockets of dead tissue – have ...

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 ...