PCP, a drug known for its unpredictable and often violent high, has surged in popularity after spending years on the margins of Washington's narcotics culture, according to police and health workers.

PCP, a drug known for its unpredictable and often violent high, has surged in popularity after spending years on the margins of Washington's narcotics culture, according to police and health workers.

Health experts consider a phencylidine (PCP) overdose a medical emergency that requires immediate treatment. Different treatments are available and may include sedation, activated charcoal, and airway ...

Could the current '80s pop-cult revival include a resurgence of PCP use? Hitting its peak in the early '80s, PCP, or "angel dust," had notoriety as the drug that made its users so violent that police ...

It was about 1:15 a.m. when Jarees Robinson, 32, was arrested while standing on a street corner in Manchester, Conn. He was naked. Police drove him to a local hospital where he became agitated and ...

Two years ago, Robert Lambert, program director of Connecticut Counseling Centers' outpatient facility in Norwalk, began seeing more and more clients with stories of PCP use referred by probation ...

Assistant Project Scientist Marta Pratelli and Professor Nick Spitzer study neurotransmitter switching, an evolving area of research investigating how the brain changes function and structure in ...

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was allegedly a regular user of the hallucinogenic drug PCP, and had become so paranoid by heavy use that he had started carrying a gun wherever ...

Along with child molesters, Klansmen, and the 9/11 terrorists, the illicit drug PCP occupies a space in the news culture so low that a journalist in search of a crowd-pleasing story need not consult ...

In an investigative report into the background of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who is awaiting trial for murder, Rolling Stone reports that the Massachusetts native was a ...