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National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
Thursday, August 21 is National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day.
Fentanyl is involved in more deaths of Americans under 50 than any other cause, including heart disease, cancer, homicide, and suicide. Talk to your children about their mental health and the risks of encountering illicitly manufactured fentanyl.
Click the link below to visit DEA's Fentanyl Awareness hub to hear a message from the Attorney General and DEA Administrator, access the Fentanyl Fact Sheet, parental resources, and treatment resources, as well as to read about DEA's Faces of Fentanyl exhibit, download graphics and visuals, view speakers addressing the epidemic via free virtual webinars, browse a list of partners, and review the risk of potential scenarios in which fentanyl may be encountered.
Just How Effective Are Fentanyl Test Strips?
Some states have shifted from banning fentanyl test strips to colleges requiring them on campus.
But like chocolate chips in a batch of chocolate chip cookies, fentanyl is not evenly spread throughout pills. Parts of the pill that are tested cannot be used, but a part of the pill that has not been tested could be lethal.
A CBS News Sacramento investigation breaks it down for you.
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