INDIANAPOLIS — On Monday, Jan. 14, 2025, an Indiana House committee amended and advanced a bill that would make it clear that test strips are legal in Indiana. The committee voted unanimously to send ...
People who may think they are using just cocaine or other illegal stimulants are starting to overdose in larger numbers, as the deadly opioid fentanyl increasingly invades the illicit drug supply – ...
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PARTY CITY: Asheville's bars and restaurants are availing themselves of the fentanyl test strips provided by Buncombe County so that customers can test any drugs they might use, says Sunrise Community ...
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 ...
As dangerous drugs become more prevalent in the Texas drug supply, there’s still no legal way for people to check and see whether a drug sample could increase their risk of overdosing. Last week, the ...
With COVID-19 stealing headlines, opioid overdoses have fallen out of the spotlight these last few years. But this figure bears reporting: 100,000 people have died of drug overdoses in the U.S. this ...
HB 1053 removes the parts of Indiana law that classifies tools for “testing the strength, effectiveness, or purity of a controlled substance” as controlled substance paraphernalia. A common harm ...
Beginning Monday, people in Pennsylvania who buy or carry fentanyl testing strips will no longer face potential criminal charges for possession of drug paraphernalia. The state legislature, with final ...
Fentanyl test strips are becoming more widely available in Minnesota as part of a “harm reduction strategy” aimed at curbing overdose deaths. The test strips were legalized in Minnesota last year when ...
ALL RIGHT, AS WE KNOW, THE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS OVER THE YEARS HAS CAUSED MANY LIVES LOST, BUT HIDDEN DANGERS ALSO POP UP AS WELL. FENTANYL AND MANY STREET LEVEL DRUGS HAS MADE THEM EVEN MORE LETHAL.
Nothing has made the nation’s addiction epidemic more deadly than fentanyl’s infiltration of the drug supply. Yet in more than a dozen states, tools used to detect the ultra-potent synthetic opioid ...