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 ...

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.

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — On Thursday, June 22, Governor Josh Green, M.D. signed new legislation that recategorizes fentanyl test strips as medical paraphernalia. Before this new law, fentanyl test strips ...

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 ...

Fentanyl is a deadly synthetic opioid that is odorless and tasteless, making it difficult to detect. However, low-cost test strips can be used to check drugs for traces of fentanyl. Fentanyl is often ...

The government’s top addiction scientists and key public health officials are calling for more research into fentanyl test strips. Amid a devastating overdose epidemic, the U.S. must ensure that test ...

Proponents say the ability to check drugs for the presence of lethal fentanyl may save lives. But critics say the strips enable drug use. By Jan Hoffman Photographs by Desiree Rios “You smoke weed?” ...