Animal Services officers from the Napa County Sheriff’s Office twice used a stun gun on a stray pit bull and later shot it with a tranquilizer dart Tuesday morning, authorities said. The Sheriff’s ...

Granite City Animal Control will soon have another way to catch vicious animals. In January, Animal Control officers will once again be able to use a tranquilizer gun. The only means that Animal ...

One county in Ohio has seen an increase in a drug that is intended for animal use. It’s called xylazine and veterinarians use ...

Just as Ohio is beginning to see signs the tide is weakening (though not quite turning) in the substance abuse epidemic, a new danger rears its head. Xylazine-related overdose deaths are on the rise.

An animal tranquilizer is the new drug on the street in Pittsburgh. Medetomidine is not approved for human use, but doctors say people are using it. "We know it's probably in about half to ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - An educational and informational campaign is underway in Horry County to get the word out about overdose deaths involving an animal tranquilizer. ”It’s not just a heroin, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso's DEA said they found purple fentanyl with xylazine, a type of animal tranquilizer. This type of opioid has been found in the country before, but the DEA says this is ...

Physicians aren’t sure how to treat the growing number of patients who take opioids laced with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, because of its slim number of withdrawal treatments, The Philadelphia ...