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By Taylor Sisk BURLINGTON, Vt. — “You can’t inject a horse tranquilizer and think nothing bad is gonna happen” to you, said Ty Sears, 33, a longtime drug user now in recovery.…

Wightman is a practicing…

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of…

A 71-year-old man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for his involvement in the 2021 fatal overdose of “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams.Nearly two years after the…

OXFORD, Miss., July 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oxford Treatment Center, a leading provider of substance use and co-occurring mental health treatment in Mississippi, is warning residents…

Drug overdose deaths with xylazine involvement have multiplied, with…

Three teenage girls were found slumped in a car in the parking lot of a rural Tennessee high school last month, hours before graduation ceremonies. Two were dead from fentanyl overdoses. The…

Edwin Leap, MD, is an…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. magistrate judge on Friday ordered three men detained on drug trafficking charges accusing them of supplying illicit fentanyl linked to…

Phoenix, AZ, June 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, has emerged as a significant public health concern across the United States, contributing to a surge…