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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A mid-level drug bust in Kensington is being framed by city officials as part of a larger crackdown on the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast, city officials said Thursday. Jada Williams, ...
Philadelphia's first female mayor is declaring a public safety emergency to stop rampant crime and excessive drug addiction plaguing the city's neighborhoods as her first act in office. "I think it's ...
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 ...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN)– There is a new warning about a deadly batch of drugs popping up in Ohio that are proving resistant to life-saving treatment, like Narcan. Overdose Awareness Day: Free Narcan kits ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It was a three-day blitz to target drugs and violent crime in a Philadelphia neighborhood hit very hard by both. Mayor Jim Kenney announced the results Monday of the sweeping ...
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 – 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.