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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Fentanyl overdose deaths in Utah more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, according to health experts with the Utah Department of Health. Substance users are now using strips to ...

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(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' ...

Synthetic opioids are a leading cause of death in the United States. At Coachella, a group of independent volunteers handed out fentanyl test strips and carried the overdose treatment Narcan in an ...

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 is a synthetic opioid that’s 50-100 times stronger than the pain reliever morphine. While some people use fentanyl on purpose, many others get it in their systems without their knowledge.