Many Republicans and Democrats agree fentanyl testing strips should be legal, but it still might not happen.
Fentanyl testing strips can detect if a pill is laced with fentanyl, like those confiscated from a local home and pictured here.across Texas in recent times has rightfully grabbed a lot of attention from the media, school districts, law enforcement agencies and governing bodies. The crisis fentanyl has caused has also created some unlikely alignments. In Texas, it’s not often that conservative Gov. Greg Abbott finds himself in line with a cause that many Democrats have vocally supported.
Fentanyl testing strips work by dipping them into a small amount of a drug dissolved in water. Usually within a few minutes, the strip will indicate whether the tested sample contains fentanyl. As of now, the strips are on the state’s list of illegal drug paraphernalia. Fentanyl is both cheap and extremely powerful, and when laced into an illegally manufactured pill, it is often deadly. Proponents of taking fentanyl testing strips off the illegal drug paraphernalia list say that we’re living in a time when a single, illicitly obtained pill falsely billed as Percocet or Oxycontin could have been made with a lethal amount of fentanyl.
According to a recent Texas Health and Human Services presentation, there were 3,340"unintentional synthetic opioid deaths related to fentanyl," from 2020 through August 2022. Opponents of any measure to legalize fentanyl testing strips suggest it would enable and embolden drug users.in the Senate to legalizing testing strips by saying, “It’s just illogical, but there’s a belief by some members that it might safeguard the use.”
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