Uncertainty and fear about coronavirus’ spread and the course of the illness is causing shockwaves in our daily lives. A simple paper test could provide answers to basic questions and shape a sensible ...

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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an effort to reduce overdose deaths, the CDC and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

Young adults who use drugs find fentanyl test strips useful, residue testing more convenient and testing at home more private, a Brown study found Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid so potent that a ...

Amid a nationwide overdose epidemic, more states are legalizing at-home fentanyl rapid tests to spot the potentially fatal substance hidden in recreational drugs. Last week, Tennessee and New Mexico ...

At the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic people who felt unwell had to join long queues for lab-based PCR tests and then wait for two days to learn if they were infected with the COVID-19 virus or not.

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 ...

Federal funding can now be used to buy test strips that show if the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl is in a drug before a person takes it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said ...