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To the suggestion to give young people for use to the test strips? >> there is broad support for this, the cdc has a website listing information about this. helping people understand how to use the test strips to keep themselves safe. there are some places where there is drug paraphernalia lawshakeep people from having access. that is mainly a bureaucratic challenge many people are working around to get the laws changed. in the majority of the u.s. you can get access to test strips. they can be very effective tools. i use them in my own practice to help young people that may not be ready or wi...

It has found its way into cocaine supplies and it is rampant throughout counterfeit pills that are available throughout the u.s. for purchase on line through social media where we have thick pills that are made to look like pills prescribed by a doctor, made to look like xanax or oxycodone but actually contain fentanyl. >> you have suggested one way to combat the epidemic is to give teens and young adults free fentanyl test strips. >> test strips are a tool, there is a lot of things we need to be doing. we need to make sure young people struggling with addiction have access to high- quality ad...

The cdc shows drug overdose deaths in the u.s. are hovering at record levels. 110,000 people died from a drug overdose last year, that is only slightly less during the levels reached during the pandemic. data shows fentanyl was involved in over two thirds of the overdose deaths. psychostimulants were involved in a third. there are calls for more research into fentanyl test strips as some states still classified them as a legal paraphernalia. the strips of papal are used to the tech the presence of fentanyl in different types of drugs. officials say they can be effective in preventing overdoses...

Careless. >> i think you can argue, at one level, this is just an admission that we lost the war on drugs with every other strategy, right? you can't stop the drug from getting in the country. you can't prevent people from doing them, we can't cure addiction, so i guess the last resort is to make it clean and safe. >> well, also, to stop overdosing. to triage the overdosing. >> i have no problem with the narcan -- i think most taxpayers, but no test strips, that's a good use of funds. but when it comes to crack pipes, that's an admission that that most we can do now is have people do it in a c...

Red sox yankees saturday on fox. when you can't watch, listen. get the latest news business and news headlines on sirius xm any time anywhere . fox news radio on sirius xm >> sean: new ytening. >> all right. lat new york city's latest brighest idea setting street corners heat as we speak. the city's department of health now ha a new vending machine in brooklyn, new york , supplying free drugs safety kits. among the many supplies arees narcan, fentanyl, test strips, ,sterile syringes. soterile local residents think t all of this being in their backyard. yard?well, we sent out our kcs,r charlie ...