Abstract

More drug‐detecting tools and other ways to prevent overdose deaths are urgently needed, according to a Commentary in the June 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., acting director of the National Institutes of Health, call for addressing the current gaps in the research, development, and implementation of fentanyl test strips and other rapid drug‐detecting tools that could help prevent overdose deaths. Barriers to these tools exist at the state and local levels.

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