The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy ...

As more Australian jurisdictions begin drug checking trials at festivals and in the community, experts are exploring how the data could reach significantly more people. The new study from RMIT ...

Editor's Note: This story is part of a reporting fellowship sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists and supported by The Commonwealth Fund. The three-part series examines the opioid ...

A portable device that can instantly detect dangerous street drugs at extremely low concentrations has been developed at the University of Bath in the UK. The device, which is being trialed by ...

Before heading on vacation, Esteban Pinzon, a 36-year-old public school teacher, makes a hotel reservation, packs a suitcase, and visits a drug-checking site in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia, ...

A downtown Spokane site has joined a statewide drug-checking network aimed at reducing overdoses. It’s also a glimpse into what’s new in the illicit drugs circulating throughout the area. In recent ...

A new study analyses how other countries' drug checking services use and share data, as a way of helping Australia's policymakers decide what to do with ours. The researchers also spoke with people ...