A new Kentucky law that went into effect Thursday decriminalizes fentanyl test strips. The strips can detect the presence of the deadly opioid that state officials say was responsible for more than 70 percent of the 2,250 Kentucky overdose deaths in 2021. Some county health departments will have the strips available for free. Cassie Prather is the Woodford County Public Health Director.
“Some of the funding that we do receive allows us to buy fentanyl strips. And so between that and the strips that we are given, we try to stretch that out enough to be able to have those available anytime.”
