Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s 50-100 times stronger than the pain reliever morphine. While some people use fentanyl on purpose, many others get it in their systems without their knowledge.

As fentanyl hidden in a high percentage of illicit street drugs continues to kill, momentum to legalize strips that check for the presence of the synthetic opioid is growing. Two bills — House Bill ...

In a move that mirrors fentanyl testing strip distribution two years ago, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill into law Tuesday that would decriminalize the use of xylazine testing strips.

In an effort to slow the proliferation of synthetic opioid-related deaths, California will begin offering free fentanyl-testing strips to eligible organizations across the state that ask for them, the ...

At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: "Your drugs ...

When Mark Wiger’s daughter found a bag of powder on the side of the road on July 14, 2022, she thought it was cocaine. She texted a friend to ask where to get fentanyl testing strips, but her friend ...

With time running out in the 2022 legislative session, Georgia lawmakers took up a bill to regulate raw milk. An amendment suddenly got tacked onto the House version of the bill, although the new ...

With time running out in the 2022 legislative session, Georgia lawmakers took up a bill to regulate raw milk. An amendment suddenly got tacked onto the House version of the bill, although the new ...

Fentanyl is the “main issue” in Stanislaus County right now, Sheriff Jeff Dirkse would argue. The county ranks 15th among the 58 California counties for the highest number of overdoses in 2022. To ...