This fact sheet about fentanyl test strips was created by CDPH with the goal of providing information to people who use drugs and health care providers.

Fentanyl test strips (FTS) are a simple, inexpensive, and evidence-based method of averting drug overdose. This article from Health Affairs covers what barriers have prevented and continue to prevent people from being able to access test strips.

National Harm Reduction Coalition created a comprehensive resource library solely focused on fentanyl. This webpage includes a fentanyl fact sheet, tips on using fentanyl safely, testing for fentanyl, and more.

LAPPA’s new fact sheet outlines how states can make this important harm reduction tool more accessible to their citizens.

The California Department of Public Health released information of fentanyl related deaths in California. The map shows the rates per 100K residents and the number of deaths in each county for 2020 in California. The bar graph shows fentanyl related deaths by age group for 2020 in California.

FentCheck is a harm reduction focused non-profit. Their goal is to get test strips into venues making them widely available to counter the increase in accidental overdoses.

This presentation focuses on how the emergency of fentanyl has changed how we must approach the overdose epidemic, and how the differences between fentanyl and other opioids requires a new approach to treatment SUD.

Author and journalist Sam Quiñones focuses on the devastation caused by methamphetamine and fentanyl in the United States, and what role community and other institutions can play.

To help remediate the impacts of the rising rates of drugs adulterated or laced with fentanyl, the National Council Medical Director Institute (MDI) issued this new publication.

This study poses questions for what will happen in the future regarding the trends of infectious diseases and discusses the transition from injected drugs to smoking fentanyl.