An Experiment Helps Heroin Users Test Their Street Drugs For Fentanyl
NPRAn Experiment Helps Heroin Users Test Their Street Drugs For Fentanyl Enlarge this image toggle caption Mary Harris/WNYC Mary Harris/WNYC In the day room at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction, which runs a needle exchange program in the Bronx, a group of guys are playing dominoes and listening to salsa music while they wait for lunch. "If you're doing dope," he says to one client, "we'll give you a test strip so you can test and see if there's fentanyl." even when they know they're going to be positive for fentanyl, the experience of somebody testing their drugs and seeing that it's fentanyl has an impact," Walley says. He's interviewed heroin users, and says while some users tell him they like fentanyl, and some don't, "the majority of people are agnostic.
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