A nonprofit organization is targeting bars and other popular nightlife destinations as places to offer fentanyl test strips. These strips help people who use drugs avoid overdoses due to contamination from the potentially fatal substance.
FentCheck, an organization focused on harm reduction, provides the tests to various venues to prevent overdose deaths.The organization told the Washington Examiner that easy access to drug testing is already affecting the community."It's now extremely common for anyone who engages in nightlife to carry NARCAN and utilize fentanyl testing strips, and that means less accidental deaths," co-founders Alison Heller and Dean Shold said.
Partnering with local artists, activists, and community leaders, they hope to remove the stigma from drug testing.Heller and Shold say that both venues and patrons are incredibly thankful for the tests, even sharing that the venues have heard"stories of patrons who alter their plans and made decisions with informed consent around drug usage if they encountered a positive test."
Operations Director Molly Jaben added that it's"not just the party scene” that is affected by the crisis. According to her, they decided to get involved with FentCheck to normalize talking about the fentanyl crisis and “testing your substances, if you choose to use.” “We’re supporting FentCheck financially with ticket profits, a percentage from our shows, and we are waiting to actually become a distribution site," she explained."Unfortunately, there are some barriers for us before we’re able to do that safely."
We are so excited to be partnering with @FentCheck to provide free fentanyl test strips to our local community!If you want to support all the excellent work FentCheck is doing you can donate to them here: https://t.co/hiNETq6Luy pic.twitter.com/htdWupo06k According to a report, volunteers regularly replenish the test strips at several businesses in Oakland and San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia.
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