The strips have the CDC's support to help prevent overdoses but are technically illegal in some states under drug paraphernalia laws dating back decades. Florida's bill awaits the governor's signature.
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A growing number of states are decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips, seeking to protect people who use drugs from unwitting exposure to the highly potent synthetic opioid ravaging the U.S. with overdose deaths.
Now at least 20 states, including Ohio, Mississippi and Pennsylvania just this year, have legalized the test strips in a bid to combat rising deaths from the ever-present opioid crisis