These test strips can detect fentanyl, the deadliest drug in the US, when it's mixed with other drugs.
It's a little strip of paper not much longer than 2 inches, and it has the potential to prevent a drug overdose.
These strips can detect fentanyl, the deadliest drug in the United States, when it's mixed with other drugs.Between April 2020 through May 2021, there were more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States, the highest number of fatal overdoses on record for a 12 month period, and nearly two-thirds of those overdoses involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
Drug checking is giving people autonomy, said Dasgupta."It's about making rational decisions about what goes in your body," he said. He likened it to checking a nutrition label on the back of a soft drink."It's the same thing that we do when we look at the back of a soda bottle and decide now I want to go with the Diet Coke this time," he said.Dasgupta says these decisions now can help avoid downstream emergencies later.
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