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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS --It's undeniable how much Mark and Brenda Wiger adore their daughter Jessica: a devoted wife, sister, daughter and aunt who had many friends and a passion for music. Mark describes her as ...

The rise in deaths tied to the deadly opioid fentanyl is prompting concern from the border, where it's crossing into the United States in record amounts, to research institutions across the country.

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, ...

DARE COUNTY, N.C. — All year long, News 3 has been sharing stories of families torn apart by illicit fentanyl, and going in-depth with law enforcement across Virginia about what's being done to ...

"As a new college student, and especially as a young woman, it is imperative for me to be hyper-aware of substance use and abuse on my college campus," said a first-year college student in North ...

Fentanyl test strips are becoming more widely available in Minnesota as part of a “harm reduction strategy” aimed at curbing overdose deaths. The test strips were legalized in Minnesota last year when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...