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' ...

Twenty two people in the Harrisburg area overdosed on drugs over the weekend, according to Harrisburg police, and at least eight have died. While a full toxicology and investigation has yet to be ...

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 ...

THAT. RIGHT NOW, IF A POLICE OFFICER DISCOVERS THAT SOMEONE HAS SOME FENTANYL TEST STRIPS, THEY COULD CHARGE THAT PERSON WITH POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. HOUSE BILL 353 WOULD MAKE THESE TEST ...

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 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 ...

Public health workers will soon have a new tool at their disposal to thwart a spreading danger to users of illicit drugs: xylazine test strips. The new testing kits will allow health departments, ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Stuck in committee, the test-strip legislation has support from Gov ...

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 ...