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 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 ...

PHILADELPHIA – Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting from injecting fentanyl began hardening into an armor of crusty, blackened tissue.

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 ...

Medetomidine has extreme and fast-acting withdrawal symptoms – and the detox centers that help patients are struggling with how best to cope The staff at the harm reduction hub Sunshine House in the ...

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 ...