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Testing the test strips: laboratory performance of fentanyl test strips.

John C HalifaxLilly LimDaniel CiccaroneKara L Lynch
Published in: Harm reduction journal (2024)
FTS remains an important overdose prevention tool, but lot-to-lot variability in performance complicates robust instructions that balance the prevention of false positives and false negatives. Continued lot-to-lot performance assessment is recommended to ensure health education for FTS remains accurate. More sophisticated drug checking technologies and services are needed in the community landscape to augment personal FTS use to facilitate informed consumption and overdose risk mitigation.
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