SACRAMENTO — Fentanyl test strips used to be illegal in California. Now, state law requires them on community and state college campuses, and they're popping up everywhere from vending machines to ...

(Editor's Note: This story is not about fentanyl addiction, which is a separate serious issue. This story is for people who would never intentionally take fentanyl, and their families and their kids' ...

In New York, fentanyl test strips are becoming more common as a way to fight an overdose crisis, and more states are pushing to legalize them. But not all users are trying to avoid the powerful drug.

This week, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill decriminalizing fentanyl test strips in Mississippi, legislation that he said “will help save lives.” It’s the latest in a wave of states taking ...

COLUMBUS, OhioCOLUMBUS, Ohio — 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 ...

ALL RIGHT, AS WE KNOW, THE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS OVER THE YEARS HAS CAUSED MANY LIVES LOST, BUT HIDDEN DANGERS ALSO POP UP AS WELL. FENTANYL AND MANY STREET LEVEL DRUGS HAS MADE THEM EVEN MORE LETHAL.

In a rapid shift since last year, over a dozen states have moved to legalize fentanyl test strips. The change is one that harm reduction proponents argue is necessary during an era where fentanyl ...

Fentanyl test strips have been shown to be highly effective and cost-efficient at fighting the crisis, but Texas is one of the few states that has not decriminalized them. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews ...

The biotech company BTNX says it is shipping out new test strips this week that detect the presence of xylazine, an animal sedative that officials say is increasingly being mixed with fentanyl. As ...

There’s a new tool that may help address the dangers of xylazine, a powerful animal tranquilizer increasingly found in street drugs. A handful of harm reduction programs in Massachusetts have started ...