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Tranq is short for tranquilizer and a trade name for the drug xylazine. Harwood says xylazine is generally used by veterinarians as a sedative, but is being mixed into fentanyl to increase demand.

The governor’s new Opioid Prevention and Intervention Task Force made a stop in Urbana Thursday, to hear ways to curtail drug abuse in the state. The task…

Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation banning the sale of synthetic drugs known as "bath salts" in Illinois stores. Rauner traveled Monday to…

(Part 1 of 3) - On an April morning in 2014, Kelley McDonald woke up in her suburban St. Charles home and went downstairs to remind her son Sean to take…

The Illinois State Medical Society wants the Illinois legislature to make it harder for patients to misuse prescription pain medication. The group…