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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?” ...

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 is the “main issue” in Stanislaus County right now, Sheriff Jeff Dirkse would argue. The county ranks 15th among the 58 California counties for the highest number of overdoses in 2022. To ...