“Don Julio.” “AT&T.” “Ruby Tuesday.” “Call of Duty.” These are among the stamps on small bags of street drugs that Dalton ...

Experts view a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking it as a promising development that could cut overdose deaths and reduce needle-related harms.

In the national conversation about overdose, fentanyl is often framed as a single, wide-reaching crisis, but new evidence from five major U.S. cities suggests a more fragmented, complex reality. In an ...

Adam Omary is a psychologist and research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. For years, public health debate has often fixated on a supposed rise in the ...

Patients with opioid overdose who tested positive for xylazine in the emergency department (ED) had higher rates of bradycardia (6.3% vs 2.6%) than those who tested negative and were mostly from the ...

A man we will identify as “James” for the purposes of this commentary lives in a tent in San Diego’s East Village, struggling with the necrotic lesions characteristic of xylazine-associated wounds.

Bradycardia on initial ED vital signs associated with higher likelihood of xylazine detection in patients with opioid overdose. HealthDay News — Bradycardia is associated with an increased likelihood ...

Researchers have identified bradycardia-an abnormally low heart rate–as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help ...

An observational study of patients with opioid overdose suggested that bradycardia on initial vital signs was associated with a higher likelihood of xylazine detection. Most hospitals cannot detect ...

Researchers have identified bradycardia—an abnormally low heart rate—as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help ...