With the number of accidental Fentanyl overdoses continuing to surge across the nation, one Bay Area nonprofit is hoping to help people, before it’s too late.
is making free Fentanyl testing kits easily available at dozens of Bay Area bars and stores.
Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine, inexpensive, and often mixed in with other drugs. The test strips detect if a drug has been laced with Fentanyl. "She started posting some of these fentanyl test strips literally with painters tape into bars, and onto electrical boxes," said Shold. "I like the idea," said Rikki Tran, who works at Tattoo 13 in Oakland, where the testing strips are available in the bathroom. She says many of the people who come in and grab a test are not customers. "They kind of just come in and they make regular stops and it’s just a part of their safety before they go out."according to US government data. San Francisco saw nearly 700 overdose deaths a year in 2020 and again 2021.
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