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Drug recovery experts say fentanyl and other test strips can save lives. They say confusion over whether the strips are legal negatively impacts overdose prevention.
Individual test strips are about $1 each, but states where they are legal also commonly have community programs that give the test strips out for free.
The Hawaii Island Fentanyl Task Force has partnered with state Sen. Joy San Buenaventura of Puna to introduce legislation to legalize fentanyl test strips.
The strips are easy to use, not unlike a home COVID test. Grind the drug in question into a fine powder, put it in water, and place the paper test strip in the water.
Fentanyl test strips are narrow pieces of paper that can resemble COVID-19 at home tests and allow drug users to know whether they're consuming drugs cut with fentanyl.
Stuck in committee, the test-strip legislation has support from Gov. Greg Abbott and bipartisan lawmakers, who see it as a way to save lives.