Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly street fentanyl − creating new hurdles for health care providers and drug users
Medetomidine is used in veterinary medicine, often during surgery. It's becoming common in the city's drug supplies, and it ...
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Deadliest phase of fentanyl crisis eases, as all states see recovery
Both told NPR they have survived their drug use in part due to naloxone, or Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses. NPR agreed not to use their last name because street drug use is ...
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Pa. street drug checking program identifies new substances, dangers in supply
PA Groundhogs and the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education monitor for novel and emerging substances by testing ...
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D.A. Warns of New Street Drug Entering Pennsylvania
Wyoming County District Attorney, Joe Peters, is warning of a new drug entering the Commonwealth. "Rhino Tranq", the street name for Medetomidine, has recently appeared in Philadelphia.
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As new, potentially deadly substances enter street drug supplies, a Pennsylvania program tracks changes in real time
PA Groundhogs and the Center for Forensic Science Research & Education monitor for novel and emerging substances by testing mail-in street drug samples. Alexis Quinter, a forensic chemist at the ...
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Philly’s street fentanyl contains an industrial chemical called BTMPS that’s an ingredient in plastic
These findings raise concerns about the increasing exposure of BTMPS to humans through street drugs. The concentrations up to 18% found in the Philly samples are many orders of magnitude higher ...
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Trump says new tariffs will cut U.S. drug deaths but fatal overdoses were already plummeting
Writing on Truth Social, Trump once again cited street drugs “pouring into our country from Mexico and Canada at very high and unacceptable levels” as a primary reason for the policy.
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Pound of deadly street drug ‘Pink Cocaine’ seized in big bust, agents say
Agents say they seized more than one pound of the deadly street drug, which is also known as ‘Tusi’ cocaine, in Fort Myers on Wednesday. The FDLE says pink cocaine, “is a powdered mixture of ...