Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was ...

Exposed tendons and bones. Wounds that attract maggots. A foul smell from dead tissue. Even as more potent drugs have hit the streets, the flesh-rotting animal tranquilizer xylazine is still wreaking ...

Nabarun Dasgupta’s research is reshaping how public health tracks street drugs — and empowering communities to protect themselves.

A new sedative used in veterinary medicine is showing up in street drugs, leading to severe health complications and frequent intensive care unit admissions, local emergency physicians warn.

A synthetic opioid that’s 43 times stronger than fentanyl and 250 times stronger than heroin has caused hundreds of deaths in the U.K., and has now spread to the U.S. Nitazenes are behind the deaths ...

A dangerous street drug called “New Jack City” is hitting Baltimore and could be tied to last week’s mass overdose, according to police sources and community members familiar with the city’s open-air ...

Experts are warning about nitazenes — synthetic opioids with different, deadly strains — that can be hidden in other drugs A synthetic opioid that’s 43 times stronger than fentanyl and 250 times ...