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Rapid Response to the Legalization of Fentanyl Test Strips in Alabama: An Academic-Community Partnership. Am J Public Health 2024 Aug;114(8):785-788

Date

06/13/2024

Pubmed ID

38870434

Pubmed Central ID

PMC11224633

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2024.307681

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85197964785 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   4 Citations

Abstract

In June 2022, Alabama legalized fentanyl test strips (FTS). In response to this new opportunity to prevent overdoses, Project Linkage, Education, and Prevention (LEAP)-an academic-community partnership providing substance use prevention services-quickly purchased FTS and started distributing them in the Birmingham area. We describe how the Addiction Prevention Coalition, a substance use education and harm reduction provider, distributed 7300 FTS in the first year of legalization via Project LEAP and discuss its efforts to decrease substance use among young people. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(8):785-788. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307681).

Author List

McCollum CG, Ventrelli G, Gagnon KW, Loftis A, Famurewa A, Wimberly C, Eaton E

Author

Kelly W. Gagnon PhD Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Alabama
Analgesics, Opioid
Community-Institutional Relations
Drug Overdose
Fentanyl
Harm Reduction
Humans
Opioid-Related Disorders