1. Acceso a Herramientas de Reducción de Daños.
Iniciativas públicas y de organizaciones sin fines de lucro están facilitando el acceso gratuito a naloxona (Narcan) y tiras reactivas para fentanilo y xilazina. Estos recursos vitales se distribuyen en bibliotecas, campus universitarios, a través de programas de envío por correo y en máquinas expendedoras de salud pública, eliminando barreras para obtenerlos.
- In new york state you can go to to get free narcan, fentanyl, and xylazine test strips for free, no questions asked. These resources save lives.
- If you live in la certain libraries will be providing free fentanyl test strips and narcan.
- The matters network ( ) will mail you fentanyl test strips and narcan completely free of charge (in nys).
- Did you know you can get narcan and fentanyl test strips delivered for free? southside harm reduction will drop them off for free.
- A harm reduction vending machine in geneva, ny at the greyhound bus stop, managed by trillium health. It offers free narcan, fentanyl, and xylazine test strips.
2. La Importancia de Testear las Sustancias.
La contaminación del suministro de drogas con fentanilo es generalizada, afectando a sustancias como la cocaína, la heroína y las pastillas falsificadas. El mensaje recurrente es claro: testear las drogas antes de su consumo es un acto fundamental de seguridad, consentimiento y autonomía corporal para prevenir una sobredosis accidental y fatal.
- Don't guess, just test. Knowing what's in your substances can save lives.
- Fentanyl is unforgiving. One mistake and someone so precious can be gone forever. Narcan and fentanyl test strips save lives and deserve funding.
- Fentanyl use isn't always intentional. If you plan on using hard drugs, do it safely! fentanyl test strips and overdose-reversing narcan can be found in your local pharmacy!
- If you're purchasing stuff to snort, inject or boof, regardless of where you get it from test the drugs test the drugs test the drugs test the drugs for fentanyl and xylazine.
- Fentanyl test strips don't encourage drug use. Our drug supply is toxic - fentanyl everywhere. Test strips help people who were already going to use drugs understand if they're tainted w/fentanyl.
3. Nuevos Adulterantes y Desafíos Emergentes.
La crisis evoluciona constantemente con la aparición de nuevos adulterantes en el suministro de drogas. Además del fentanilo, sustancias como la xilazina (conocida como "tranq") y la medetomidina, ambos sedantes de uso veterinario, se mezclan con opioides, lo que complica la respuesta a las sobredosis y crea nuevos y graves riesgos para la salud, como heridas necróticas.
- With so much attention on fentanyl, new adulterants like medetomidine and xylazine are being substituted instead. Fentanyl test strips don't pick them up and naloxone doesn't reverse them.
- Hey all — you know what i do for a living; please consider getting yourselves some xylazine testing strips if you are using anything potentially adulterated with fentanyl.
- Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in philly street fentanyl creating new hurdles for health care providers and drug users.
- Latest national data show fentanyl analogues now more common than fentanyl itself in illicit opioid samples. Meanwhile, xylazine rising steadily since 2021, w/ sharp increase in 2023.
- “tranq” (xylazine) fentanyl rising overdoses, devastating necrotic wounds, & systemic infections. This vignette shows why new harm reduction tools like drug-checking are urgently needed.
4. Legislación y Políticas de Salud Pública.
La respuesta a la crisis del fentanilo también se libra en el ámbito legislativo. Mientras la mayoría de los estados han legalizado las tiras reactivas de fentanilo al reconocer su rol en la prevención de muertes, algunos, como Texas, todavía las consideran parafernalia ilegal. Este debate refleja la tensión entre las políticas punitivas y las estrategias de salud pública basadas en la reducción de daños.
- Forty-five states have changed drug paraphernalia laws to allow individuals to possess fentanyl test strips; some prevention programs make them available for free.
- A small, inexpensive item might have averted some of these deaths. Fentanyl testing strips can be used to check for the presence of the synthetic opioid. But such testing strips are illegal in texas.
- How and why indiana decriminalized fentanyl test strips. A bipartisan push overcame stigma around harm reduction tools.
- I have introduced legislation to mandate the nyc health department to educate the public on fentanyl test strips—an affordable tool that saves lives.
- Solutions need to be found. Every late night business should be required to have a fire extinguisher, a first aid kit, and naloxone.