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, ...

(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 ...

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.

A red stripe on a test strip indicates that a heroin sample is positive for fentanyl. In the face of relentless increases in overdose deaths that involve fentanyl, the strips have become an important ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Legislature has tried to make fentanyl and xylazine (an animal sedative) testing strips legal the past couple years, but has failed to pass such legislation. Fentanyl test ...

AUSTIN, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Fentanyl test strips are among the cheapest and easiest ways to ...