Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that recreational drug users at parties and nightclubs increasingly use fentanyl test strips before engaging in drug use. Singer‐songwriter Kalie Shorr, who has lost a sister and childhood friend to drug overdoses, keeps them with her in her purse and offers them to partiers and nightclub goers:Just dissolve the cocaine in a small amount of water, she tells them. Then dip in the test strip, and wait a few minutes to see if one line (positive) or two lines (negative) appear. “You can put it up your nose if you feel so inclined,” she said. “But please do this.”The article points out that, in many cases, when people use cocaine, MDMA (“ecstasy,” “molly”), or other non‐opioid drugs obtained on the black market, the drugs are either counterfeit and/or contaminated with fentanyl.
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