Public health officials across the country are issuing warnings about xylazine, an animal sedative that has been used to lace illicit drugs. Photo credit: Screen shot, ABC 7 Chicago, via YouTube ...

The Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office has issued an alert, warning county residents that the veterinary sedative known as medetomidine has been found in a state drug-checking program and is ...

Alcohol can have a sedative effect and cause a person to fall asleep more quickly than usual. However, consuming alcohol can also cause sleep disruption and other adverse effects on people’s health.

People who attended a recent Restitution Advisory Board Meeting said that health officials reported they found a powerful animal sedative called medetomidine in some drug samples that were collected ...

SAN DIEGO — Los Angeles County health officials issued a public alert Wednesday, warning of increased overdose risks associated with the animal sedative xylazine, which has been detected in illicit ...

Sedative-, hypnotic-, or anxiolytic- (SHA-) related disorders include SHA intoxication, SHA withdrawal, and SHA-use disorder. These disorders result from abuse of a class of medications known as ...

New science shows that the animal sedative that’s tainting fentanyl across the country, including in the Cincinnati area, appears to make the life-threatening effects of opioids even worse. At least ...

Share on Pinterest A recent study used computational methods to identify novel compounds that activate receptors involved in pain modulation without sedation. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Research on ...