Half of the country’s state attorneys general called on the Senate Wednesday to take up legislation to crack down on ...

U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have introduced a bill cracking down on the Fentanyl ...

Hearst Television's National Investigative Unit is learning more about a substance, not considered an opioid, being mixed with fentanyl that's creating a serious problem in the fight against opioids ...

The bill’s full name is the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (or HALT) Act. It means traffickers of fentanyl-related substances would face tougher prison sentences. Southwest Virginia ...

Nearly 22,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized at US borders during the 2024 fiscal year, according to data from the US Customs ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation with Democratic support that would lead to harsher sentences for fentanyl ...

The House of Representatives has taken a decisive stand against the growing fentanyl crisis by passing the "Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act," which permanently classifies fentanyl as a ...

Lawmakers rallied around the HALT Fentanyl Act on Thursday, successfully passing the legislation in the House to classify the ...

The bill would permanently classify the opioid as Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act, joining drugs such as heroin and LSD.

The “Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act” would amend the Controlled Substances Act to include fentanyl as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it has no "accepted medical use and a high potential for ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House passed the HALT Act on Thursday, a bill that seeks to permanently classify ...