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Speeding is the main cause of deaths in the city of Recife, Brazil. To address this the city launched a mass media campaign, calling the audience to slow down.

Two physicians and a nurse from Jefferson Health talking about why they distribute fentanyl test strips and some best practices they’ve learned along the way. We hope that other clinical settings can incorporate fentanyl test strips into care for patients who use drugs after watching this video.

When they are able to use fentanyl test strips, people implement additional harm reduction strategies with their drug use, such as testing a small sample of the drug, using less, or asking a trusted friend to sit with them when they use.

Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by the drug overdose crisis. Overdose mortality rates steadily increased in the Black community since 1999, and doubled in the five-year period ending 2019.

Overdose prevention centers are public health facilities that provide people with a non-judgmental, hygienic, supervised space to use their drugs.

Access to naloxone has been found to decrease overdoses by more than 10 percent. Naloxone works by rapidly reversing the effects of an…

Access to safer drug use supplies can reduce the risk of overdose, Hepatitis C, HIV, and other health harms to people who use drugs, and represents an important harm reduction strategy.