Activists pass out fentanyl testing strips after Pennsylvania legalization 



Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of death in Pennsylvania which has been made worse by the ongoing fentanyl crisis. NBC’s Dasha Burns takes a look at the controversial solution of fentanyl test strips that were recently made legal within the state.

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28 comments

  1. Get the border under control and you will solve multiple problems!

  2. As someone that dabbled in coke (and other drugs. Never opioids though) in my younger years, I feel very fortunate to have missed this era.
    No one chooses to die when they experiment in recreational drugs. Not only is the morally right thing to do, its an economic one. We are losing 90K+ people a year due to overdose deaths. It's having an economic hit as we are losing people out of the labor force.

  3. The handle 👆 is a good plug for psychedelics, MDMA, and more.

  4. Find out what does have Fentanyl or the like substances in them beforehand or just unwittingly die from Fentanyl or something that does damages like Fentanyl.

  5. Fentanyl Drug Crisis Continues… Where is the Mighty SS Homeland S????

    Oh, Yea, Out Murdering Innocenyt Civilians and Lying About it!!!!!!

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  6. It's only a matter of time before that goofy Sling Blade moron Governor, legalizes the deadly Fentanyl…..

  7. As Mr Mackey says.. Don't do drugs , drugs are bad mmkay. If you are stoopid enough to take this crap you have no one to blame but yourself if you die.

  8. Recall Shapiro and finish building the wall.

  9. Our government representatives are in favor of legalizing all illicit drugs to further dumb down the population and to depopulate. TRUTH.

  10. That's what y'all get for putting crack in our hoods.

  11. Addiction is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate between social status or upbringing.

  12. More black people are dying from fentanyl I stand with biden leave the borders open let that fentanyl poor in turn those black neighborhoods brown Joey knows what he is doing lmfao vote blue 💙 for fentanyl and code blue karma is a btch haha 😄

  13. Hopefully one day as a people we can decide to stop doing these temptations that lay before us openly and in such great abundance.

  14. With losing close friends and family from fentanyl poisoning when over the years like everyone normally does having get togethers having fun taking group photos, in the photos we take now, I personally do not see whom is in the photos any longer, but I see whom is missing from the photos since the crises that has impacted us all!

  15. Remove all Armenians and other Arab trash from government agencies and top business managers – so that they cannot influence the situation in the world… these scum work collectively, they must be infringed on like the rest of the Arab gangs to the fullest, not allowing them to advance in any way and not believing their mental kindness and benefit…

  16. The city of dope fiends the bar owner was loaded

  17. Thanks for a good report. This is a terrible problem across the country. Resources like this are sorely needed.

  18. Amazing video and thank you for breaking it down!! Despite the economic downturn, I'm so happy 😊.I have been earning $15,200 returns from my $7000 investment every 14days

  19. Big brother was taking your tax dollars to lock up people for TESTING drugs. That's how backwards our system is.

  20. So much for, “just say NO.”

  21. I'm so glad to be clean! Fentanyl gets people hooked from even secondhand smoke… If dealers are using this to hook people, we have a way bigger problem on our hands than previously considered. The first time makes a lifer!

    I'm in full support of any legal or martial acts to remove it.

  22. Narcan & Test strips are little more than band aides on gushing wounds.

    The root cause is our southern border, the cartels, & China.

    We could at least alleviate the demand for that by legalizing safer alternatives and not charging a fortune for them like we did with Marijuana, which made Cartel Weed way cheaper.

  23. are there going to be any giveaways anytime soon???

  24. How about just don't do drugs?

  25. fuggin gave he a heart attack lol i thought some knucklehead legalized fentanyl

  26. did NBC just reference a super bowl(TM) stadium worth of people and fentanyl overdoses? thats messed up marketing.

  27. Certain people can commit treason with no penalty, others, could get busted and do time over testing strips or smoking cannabis.. see… this is why we are over this ish.. man if you're rich you can commit treason insurrection and manslaughter by proxy and still be walking around free.. average joes can be locked up for smoking/possessing a joint.. or trying to make drug use safer, which more people are turning to fentanyl for chronic pain because they can not afford doctors that aren't too lazy to do the extra paperwork you just put on them with the 'much pain' act.