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.

When Ian Eisenberg’s friend died due to an overdose of fentanyl last year, the problem of street drugs laced with this potent synthetic opioid became personal. “People taking drugs that they have no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...