Emergency room doctors at three area health systems collected data on patients who had experienced severe withdrawal symptoms ...

A first carfentanil overdose death ever recorded in Santa Clara County was confirmed by a medical examiner on Wednesday. The ...

An animal tranquilizer is the new drug on the street in Pittsburgh. Medetomidine is not approved for human use, but doctors ...

New report breaks down 2023 overdose deaths, but it doesn't include data on a potent sedative the city hopes test strips and ...

Carfentanil is dangerous even in the smallest of quantities, and federal agents found a large amount of it in an unlikely ...

County health officials said he was found with counterfeit pills that were made to look like prescription oxycodone.

The marsupial was unharmed, law enforcement said. It was shot with a tranquilizer and returned to its owner. Authorities in Alabama helped catch a culprit with a distinctive hopping gait, ...

Yes, that was a kangaroo on Interstate 85 between the cities of Auburn and Tuskegee on Tuesday. Video taken from a vehicle just behind the ’roo shows it hopping along the left side of the road ...

The pills were manufactured to look like oxycodone. Instead of oxycodone, the pills contained carfentanil — a tranquilizer that is used for elephants and other large mammals, according to U.S ...

It's supposed to be used as a tranquilizer for large elephants, but drug dealers mix it into drugs because it's addictive. It can also be deadly and cause overdoses. "That can kill hundreds of ...