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A FEDERAL POLICY IS COMPLICATING HOW ORGANIZATIONS BATTLE THE OPIOID CRISIS

1 min read • 1 hr ago • KFF Health News • [src]
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KFF Health NewsA FEDERAL POLICY IS COMPLICATING HOW ORGANIZATIONS BATTLE THE OPIOID CRISIS1 hr ago

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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.

KFF Health News reports that drug test strips are credited with saving lives, but a new policy will limit how funds can be used for them.

The report adds: 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.

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