Fentanyl test strips are billed as a tool used to save lives and change habits when it comes to battling deadly drug overdose. But addiction treatment experts acknowledge they're not widely utilized ...

INDIANAPOLIS — On Monday, Jan. 14, 2025, an Indiana House committee amended and advanced a bill that would make it clear that test strips are legal in Indiana. The committee voted unanimously to send ...

Overdose Lifeline distributed more than 170,000 test strips in 2023. Advocates said they are more interested in saving lives than "getting held up on those gray areas" – which is where the legality of ...

OLATHE, Kan. (WIBW) - Governor Laura Kelly participated in a roundtable discussion on the need to decriminalize fentanyl test strips in Kansas. The Office of the Governor announced that Governor Kelly ...

DARE COUNTY, N.C. — All year long, News 3 has been sharing stories of families torn apart by illicit fentanyl, and going in-depth with law enforcement across Virginia about what's being done to ...

Beginning Monday, people in Pennsylvania who buy or carry fentanyl testing strips will no longer face potential criminal charges for possession of drug paraphernalia. The state legislature, with final ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - As Kansas sees a spike in deaths related to fentanyl overdoses one of the public health tools advocates are pushing for is a thin strip of paper. Under Kansas law, fentanyl ...

Fentanyl test strips are becoming more widely available in Minnesota as part of a “harm reduction strategy” aimed at curbing overdose deaths. The test strips were legalized in Minnesota last year when ...

"As a new college student, and especially as a young woman, it is imperative for me to be hyper-aware of substance use and abuse on my college campus," said a first-year college student in North ...

(WSAW) - The Wisconsin Department of Health Services held a media briefing Wednesday regarding the trend of fentanyl poisoning and deaths. Public health leaders said it isn’t just a trend in Wisconsin ...

Weighing 10 pounds, the PMCDS is a microscope and a spectrometer that can read the presence of amounts of substances smaller ...

It is difficult to recall a time when doctors and patients had trouble tracking the presence of glucose and other substances in urine and blood. Lack of sufficient measurement tools made it difficult ...