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A Federal Policy Is Complicating How Organizations Battle the Opioid Crisis

kffhealthnews.org · 11hShare

Drug test strips are credited with saving lives, but a new policy will limit how funds can be used for them. Advocates of harm reduction strategies who responded to a mass overdose in Baltimore say distributing them will get harder. Federal officials say the strips enable drug use.

First report: Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears — npr.org, 3d