A YOUNG man sits in the warming winter sunshine on cold stone steps, struggling to light his smoke, before taking a long drag and exhaling. Minutes later, he stands, walks a few paces across the ...

FAMILIES of teens who have fallen prey to ketamine have told of the horror of watching their kids turn into “zombies” in ...

Oscar* wasn’t a stranger to vaping. Like many of his friends, the 14-year-old would often sneak the odd nicotine hit in when his parents weren’t around. However, when the secondary student’s aunt died ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida has filed to reclassify xylazine as a Schedule I controlled substance, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday. Xylazine is an animal tranquilizer known ...

Xylazine – animal tranquilizer being misused by humans as an illegal drug mixing it with fentanyl or heroin to disastrous results. A Foundation for a Drug-Free World volunteer providing information to ...

As the homeless services coordinator for the city of West Palm Beach, Allie Severino works closely with people whose lives have been endangered by drug use. She has seen increasingly dangerous and ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Authorities in Charleston report nearly three dozen drug overdose cases in less than 24 hours in the Capital City that may have been caused by what’s called the zombie drug.