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COLUMBUS (AP) — At Clevelands Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out i

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."

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

Advocates say the strips help prevent overdoses linked to fentanyl by allowing users to test their drugs for the dangerous compound.

Roughly 20 states have legalized the test strips to stop rising deaths from the opioid crisis. The strips are still technically illegal in some states under drug paraphernalia laws.

The small paper strips are still considered illegal in some states, outlawed under drug paraphernalia laws dating to the 1970s era war on drugs — long before fentanyl began seeping into the nation's drug supply.

A growing number of states are decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips, seeking to protect people who use drugs from unwitting exposure to the highly potent synthetic opioid ravaging the U.S. with

COLUMBUS, Ohio — At Clevelands Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — 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 m

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