Public health officials are calling for more tools and fewer barriers to implement drug checking as a harm reduction strategy for opioid users, according to a perspective article.
“The high rate of fentanyl-related overdose deaths necessitates harm reduction tools targeting fentanyl to help prevent deaths and save lives,” co-author Wilson Compton, MD, MPE, the deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), in Bethesda, Md., told Pain Medicine News. “Because