At least 20 states have decriminalized fentanyl testing strips in recent years, a move advocates say could save lives as the deadly synthetic opioid continues to ravage the U.S. and drive overdose deaths.
By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSONKim Adams of the SOAR Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent drug overdoses in Ohio, packs fentanyl testing strips to be shipped out to anonymous recipients on April 13, 2023, at their office in Columbus, Ohio. The test strips, previously labeled as illegal drug paraphernalia, were only recently decriminalized in the state this spring as part of a nationwide effort to save people who use drugs from overdosing on the deadly synthetic opioid.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — At Cleveland’s Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.” Owner Waverly Willis has given out strips for years at his barbershop, hoping to protect others from unwittingly being exposed to the
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