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SurfinPirate t1_j1wuoh0 wrote

What is the world was the reasoning for having fentanyl test strips be illegal??

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randompaaccount t1_j1x9lj6 wrote

Same reason they want to make access to birth control more difficult. Gotta make things they disagree with as dangerous as possible.

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Wuz314159 t1_j1x7udd wrote

The Republican belief that if you use drugs, you deserve to die?

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interestedfluffydog t1_j1xcm5k wrote

The strips were considered "paraphernalia" under old PA laws. But I don't think (could be wrong) that there was a specific reasoning, but rather those laws cover so many things associated with drug use.

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Exodys03 t1_j1xxyfk wrote

They were likely just lumped in with other paraphernalia laws because… you know… drug stuff is bad. Allowing people to know whether their next dose is likely to kill them or not is certainly a good step.

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eternalrefuge86 t1_j1yin9k wrote

Because some people who live in the 1920’s believe that this and other harm reduction methods are “enabling.” As an addict in recovery this infuriated me. This isn’t going to stop people from using at all. It’s just going to increase deaths.

I hope when reduction organizations ignore this law and pass them out anyway.

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thelazykitchenwitch t1_j1ynura wrote

I work in a MAT treatment center, and while I can't directly give them to my patients until January 2023, I can leave them on a table for them. I also tell them about nextdistro.org where they can get free narcan, fentanyl test strips and condoms.

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eternalrefuge86 t1_j20cfd3 wrote

Good. Thank you for what you do. I’m in MAT currently and it’s been a godsend. I take my Suboxone I’m the morning and go about my day as any normal person would. It has given me my life back. And people somehow want to fight that. Blows my mind.

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thelazykitchenwitch t1_j23nmsl wrote

I think that you are an amazing person! You wake up and make a choice every day, and you choose to take your life back. I could go on for hours about how our society treats the issue of addiction and shames everyone who doesn't fall into their cookie cutter definition of what they think k sobriety is, but I won't. You are amazing and strong and MAT is sober!

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JustVern t1_j1y2ilg wrote

Please enlighten me.

Wouldn't those test strips help IDing fentanyl to protect people?

Cops, Docs, Nurses, etc? What am I missing here?

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pocketbookashtray t1_j1xk1i5 wrote

Democrats getting kickbacks from big pharma only wanted them available with a prescription.

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pizzapantifa t1_j1y1e9y wrote

And your lukewarm explanation as to why a democrat signed the bill to end that conspiracy theory?

love how they always disappear to chudpost elsewhere when asked to try and make sense of the stupid shit they say.

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