ATLANTA — Health officials and pharmacists are applauding Georgia’s decriminalization of the sale of fentanyl test strips. The strips can detect the presence of the deadly synthetic opioid in street ...

(NewsNation) — Officials across the U.S. are working to combat the flow of fentanyl that has led to overdose deaths and the continued opioid epidemic. The drug is so pervasive on the illicit narcotic ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jess Tilley pushes aside magazines on a waiting room table and lines up three used "cookers" — small aluminum caps in which someone mixed and heated up their drugs. She mixes water with drug residue ...

No drug has fueled the current spike in overdose deaths more than fentanyl. The synthetic opioid claimed two thirds of the record 64,000 such fatalities in the U.S. in 2016. Up to 100 times more ...