What Are Fentanyl Test Strips?
Learn everything you need to know, including how to use fentanyl test strips, where to buy fentanyl test strips in Tennessee, and more.
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Harm Reduction
What Is Harm Reduction?
What is harm reduction, and what does it look like?
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Understanding Syringes
Learn more about what types and sizes of syringes are best for injecting drugs.
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What Do Tennessee’s Regional Overdose Prevention Specialists (ROPS) Do?
ROPS distribute NARCAN and fentanyl test strips, but how well do they reach people who use drugs?
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No, Halloween Candy Doesn’t Contain Fentanyl
Fentanyl in kids’ Halloween candy this year? Learn where this myth started and how it quickly spread across the internet — a true Halloween horror story.
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The Sad State of High-Dose Naloxone (Video)
Here, we explain the differences between naloxone and NARCAN, Kloxxado, and Zimhi — and why high-dose naloxone is so damaging to the harm reduction community.
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Why Generic Naloxone Is Superior to NARCAN®… and Kloxxado®… and Zimhi™
Nasal NARCAN takes twice as long to work as injectable naloxone. NARCAN prices are at least three to five times higher than IM naloxone. Why use NARCAN?
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The “Community Guide”
Jane, 52, is a long-term sex worker and often-problematic drug user. She preferred cocaine for some two decades, drifting in and out of jail, rehab, and places to stay along the way. Now, she uses heroin to treat her chronic pain. I believe the unfortunately-illicit opioid satisfies her nearly-lifelong craving for stimulants, although she still
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We Gotta Start Associating Harm Reduction With Tobacco and Vaping More
The phrase “harm reduction” is most often associated with drugs and, to a much lesser extent, sex work — specifically, street prostitution and escorting as opposed to web-based, non-contact sex work — here in North America. So much of our struggle as harm reductionists comes from trying to get our fellow laypeople rolling with SS
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An Easy Guide to Understanding Why Fentanyl Is So Deadly
Want to finally understand why you hear about fentanyl all the time? Maybe without reading a novel or some complicated journal article written by doctors or college professors? Look no further. What Is Fentanyl? Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid available via prescription and the black market that’s about 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine.
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