Take-home test strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl in recreational drugs will soon be made available to the public at designated sites throughout the Vancouver Coastal Health region.
The VCH says the strips were shown in a study to be just as accurate as drug checking at a health care facility in identifying opioids contaminated by fentanyl, the toxic drug responsible for killing thousands of people in B.C. “We’ve been offering drug checking at community health centres, overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites but we know that not everyone can or wants to go to these sites, especially in light of the stigma that people who use drugs can face,” said Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, medical health officer at Vancouver Coastal Health. “We know most people who die from overdoses are using alone.
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