(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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

A map of which Mission District bars stock Narcan, generically known as the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone. Map designed by Will Jarrett. The Mission is one of the top neighborhoods where ...

Fentanyl test strips are sold online and easily obtained free from many public health departments. They’re touted as a harm reduction tool to help drug users determine whether fentanyl is present in a ...

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 ...

Fentanyl test strips have been shown to be highly effective and cost-efficient at fighting the crisis, but Texas is one of the few states that has not decriminalized them. RJ Sangosti/MediaNews ...

MADISON, Wis. — Fentanyl test strips are now available for free at organizations around the state, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced Thursday. Prompted by fentanyl’s increasing ...

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 ...

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 ...