This is the fourth story in a series about the open-air drug market in Kensington. Read the first, second and third parts. PHILADELPHIA – Rotting flesh. That’s a key indicator someone is addicted to ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Kensington has been plagued by an opioid crisis for years. Now, another drug on Philadelphia's streets is making a devastating situation catastrophic. According to medical ...
Philadelphia is becoming the center of a social media trend known as tranq tourism, where users on TikTok and YouTube travel to the Kensington neighborhood and record videos of people using ...
Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking or injecting ...
Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood has become widely regarded as ground zero for xylazine — a.k.a. “tranq” — a veterinary drug that’s being added to fentanyl with devastating affects. Disturbing ...
Dr. Sandra Gibney stood at East Ninth and Bennett streets in Wilmington, a drug test strip in hand. Flanked on both sides by local users, she pointed to the back of the strip’s packaging, which had ...
A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so severe that some result in amputation. Brooke Peder’s leg ...
Drug dealers are mixing xylazine, an animal tranquilizer relied on by veterinarians, into fentanyl, with deadly results. But controlling it is tricky. By Jan Hoffman Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare ...
Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking, or injecting ...