Fentanyl Test Strips

• Take-home fentanyl test strips now available to Okanagan drug users: IHA

  The fentanyl test strips are available for take-home at community-based agencies in Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Kamloops, Merritt, Cranbrook and Nelson.

  Feb 10, 2020
  
• Free fentanyl test strips to be distributed in Vancouver Coastal Health region

  For the first time in British Columbia, the public will be able to check drugs at home with take-home fentanyl test strips.

  Jan 16, 2020
  
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• Grieving Quebec family calls for more action in fighting fentanyl crisis

  The grieving parents of a 19-year-old who died from fentanyl on June 29 are calling on the Quebec government to prevent overdoses.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2019
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• Vancouver Coastal Health to keep using fentanyl test strips, despite accuracy questions

  "If we weren't using the strips at all, zero percent of the people would know what's in their drugs."

  Health

  Dec 14, 2017
• Accuracy of fentanyl test strips under scrutiny by Health Canada

  Health Canada is warning there's a possibility for a small number of test strips that detect fentanyl in street drugs to produce a false-negative result.

  Health

  Dec 14, 2017
• Prospect of testing illegal drugs at pharmacies spurs debate

  "The goal would be to save lives, get better data and hold their dealers accountable."

  Health

  Nov 24, 2017
• Fentanyl test strips won’t be widely available any time soon: Minister

  Special strips that test drugs for the presence of fentanyl won't be widely available any time soon.

  Oct 31, 2017
• Opioid overdose emergency room visits rising dramatically in Ontario, new data shows

  Numbers released today by the government show that in April, May and June there were 1,898 such emergency department visits - a 76 per cent increase from the same time period last year.

  Canada

  Sep 19, 2017