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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

PARTY CITY: Asheville's bars and restaurants are availing themselves of the fentanyl test strips provided by Buncombe County so that customers can test any drugs they might use, says Sunrise Community ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...