Trump’s sudden cut in substance testing is ‘going to kill people’, experts warn

Samhsa said funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test kits

The Trump administration’s decision to restrict use of federal funds for fentanyl test strips, in what officials described as a “clear shift away from harm reduction”, could have fatal consequences, experts and critics have warned.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa) issued an open letter in April ordering an end to the use of its funding for all substance testing strips, including fentanyl, xylazine and medetomidine, the latest novel street drug to wreak havoc across the US.

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15 thoughts on “Trump’s sudden cut in substance testing is ‘going to kill people’, experts warn

  1. Considering funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test, it raises some real questions about what happens next.

  2. In other words funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test. Curious to see how this develops.

  3. Funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test. Meanwhile funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test.

  4. The detail about funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test is something people should sit with.

  5. Basically funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.

  6. Reading that funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test — hard to argue with the logic there.

  7. On one hand funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test. But at the same time funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test.

  8. The fact that funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test really puts things into perspective.

  9. When you look at funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test, the implications are hard to ignore.

  10. What stands out is funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test. That is the part worth paying attention to.

  11. The bigger issue here is funding cannot be used to purchase or distribute fentanyl test strips or other drug test. That changes the calculation.

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