Five people face charges after East Baton Rouge deputies seized over 3,000 lethal doses of fentanyl and other illegal drugs ...

Republicans have reintroduced bills to address the fentanyl crisis. The bills would increase criminal penalties and ...

You know Colorado’s Legislature is on the wrong track in the crime fight when even Congress sets a better example. Last week, ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. House passed a bill by Southwest Virginia Congressman Morgan Griffith to classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I substances. The HALT Fentanyl Act was ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House on Thursday evening, with 98 Democrats supporting the measure. The GOP-spo ...