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 HENDRICKSONFentanyl test strips sit atop magazines in the waiting area of Urban Kutz Barbershop in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 11, 2023. Owner Waverly Willis sets them out in his businesses, hoping to protect people in his community from overdosing on drugs they're unaware contain the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl. A growing number of states are legalizing the test strips, which are often labeled as illegal drug paraphernalia, in an effort to prevent overdose deaths.
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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