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Authorities must act against drug addiction before it turns deadly

A Canadian biotech company has developed new test strips to detect the dangerous animal tranquillizer xylazine in the highly toxic street drug supply — but while the strips are already shipping across the U.S., Canada hasn’t yet approved the potentially lifesaving tool.

Americans may be buying like cocaine or methamphetamine or heroin. what's happening is people are dying at these catastrophic and unprecedented rates. and they're doing it, we believe, to drive addiction. and they're doing it because the more people who are buying the more money they make. and so, this is a threat unlike any we have seen before. and so we need to bring all -- every single tool we have in the government, public health, enforcement, or expanding the aperture to treatment, we have to be doing everything to save lives. >> i want to introduce medical frank who studies opioid use an...

We've seen before, and so we need to bring every single tool we have in the, government weathers public health or enforcement, or expanding the aperture treatment, we have to be doing everything to save lives. >> i want to introduce david frank, his medical sociologist who studies opioid use and treatment at new york university, and has been on a long term methadone maintenance treatment, you have a question for him. >> yes, thank you, drug checking programs that contest for levels of fentanyl, and other adults, friends are such a common sense and evidence based strategies to reduce overdose, ...

A new San Francisco program called Scope aims to provide people with tools to know what compounds are in their drugs before they use them.