Opioid Crisis Response: Better Data, School Safety, and Fentanyl Test Strips.
This bill aims to combat the opioid crisis by improving overdose data collection and strengthening prevention efforts nationwide. It legalizes fentanyl test strips and establishes grants for schools to stock and administer life-saving overdose reversal drugs. Furthermore, it encourages states to classify certain overdose deaths as homicides if they were not self-induced.
Key points
Fentanyl test strips are explicitly excluded from the definition of drug paraphernalia, promoting harm reduction and safer drug use practices.
New grant programs allow elementary and secondary schools to maintain supplies of overdose reversal drugs (like naloxone) and train staff to administer them.
Improved national data collection on overdoses, including a pilot program analyzing wastewater to track drug prevalence in communities.
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