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 ...

There was no textbook for the volunteer training held on how to care for the severe skin wounds that are increasingly afflicting people in addiction. Inside the tiny Savage Sisters storefront on ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Testing kits for xylazine, the animal tranquilizer "tranq" that's often laced with opioids, could soon be coming to Philadelphia. While the tests would help decipher if the drug ...

WARNING: This story contains graphic images. PHILADELPHIA — A tranq epidemic is already plaguing a neighborhood in the City of Brotherly Love, coating users with gruesome flesh wounds or killing them ...

Distressing new video shows addicts stumbling in a trance-like state along sidewalks strewn with burning trash heaps at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s “tranq” drug epidemic. The Kensington ...

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 (WPVI) -- Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is taking a major step to stop the spread of a deadly drug known as tranq. During a speech in the Kensington section of Philadelphia on ...

Governor Josh Shapiro spoke at Impact Services in Kensington on Tuesday morning, to discuss steps his office has taken to push back against a drug known as "tranq." According to the governor, this ...

Last week I described how easy it is to get the most lethal drugs on the streets of New York. And how “safe-use” sites had become magnets for dealers and addicts. Such sites are fought over. Do they ...