drug overdoses

Bipartisan lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation Tuesday to crack down on the illegal use of a veterinary tranquilizer that is increasingly being found in fentanyl and other drugs. Xylazine, also known as “tranq,”…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday said it would restrict imports of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that has “increasingly been found” in illicit drugs like fentanyl and heroin. Under the import alert, xylazine…

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized more than 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl in the last year, the agency announced on Tuesday. The massive haul comes from the more than 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake…

The White House launched a new national dashboard on Thursday to track non-fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. to aid in combating the ongoing epidemic. The Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Dashboard tracks rates across states and territories…