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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legislation permanently reclassifies fentanyl as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high ...

Bipartisan legislation co-authored by Rep. Bob Latta aims to combat fentanyl crisis, triggering mandatory minimum sentences ...

House Republicans are moving quickly to pass legislation that would result in harsher sentences for people convicted of ...