The stakes are significant. According to Detweiler, if medetomidine is diverted from a facility and someone dies, the ...

A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to further restrict xylazine, a veterinary sedative also known as tranq, in an effort to crack down on the drug's spread. Xylazine is ...

The Alberta government and the father of a man who suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage after he was allegedly given a "massive overdose" of a potent sedative at a Winnipeg hospital two ...

Xylazine is a sedative that's only approved for use in animals, but now it is showing up in illegal street drugs up and down the East Coast. WBUR's Martha Bebinger reports that it may be contributing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of older ICU survivors who filled a new sedative prescription filled it again within 6 months of ...

The animal sedative medetomidine is increasingly showing up in the U.S. illegal drug supply, according to three reports released Thursday. On Thursday, the CDC published three reports about recent ...

The therapeutic benefits of sedatives are well-established; however, their effectiveness in controlling anxiety and stress is the main reason for their frequent use and misuse. Thus, dependence on ...

The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and anti-anxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to researchers.

Alabama liberal in death sentences State's death penalty statute, other factors contribute to large number of inmates sentenced to execution. The gurney in newly completed lethal injection chamber is ...