The powerful animal tranquilizer has started appearing in the illicit heroin and fentanyl market in recent years.

Many people know it began with the overprescription of opioids like Oxycontin, which resulted in a DEA crackdown that shifted many users to street heroin. Demand became so high that illicit drug ...

Narcotics Anonymous and Salvation Army are often hostile to use of the addiction medications buprenorphine and methadone.

Ireland's Fianna Fáil Party confirmed that it supports decriminalization of drug possession for personal use as part of a ...

Overdose figures are just starting to trend lower, thankfully. But in the six years between the passage of the SUPPORT Act in ...

The withdrawal symptoms from “tranq dope” – the combination of the synthetic opioid fentanyl and the animal tranquilizer ...

Heroin binds strongly to opioid receptors in the brain, leading to intense euphoria followed by physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms. Traditional treatments often rely on opioid substitution ...

More than 50 pounds of powdered fentanyl and nine pounds of black tar heroin was seized in South Los Angeles — drugs worth an estimated street value of over $4 million and enough fentanyl to ...

The future outlook for pain relief appears promising as new trends point toward a move to better whole-person care that's ...

In March 2013, the government-run drug rehab Hanoi released Hung Quang Pham early. They didn’t want the bone-thin heroin user ...

Gang members who trafficked heroin and crack cocaine from north Manchester were caught after filming themselves bagging up the drugs. The Max drugs line plotted to flood the streets of Accrington ...