{"id":4927,"date":"2022-04-19T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gc4recovery.org\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2022-04-19T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:22:02","slug":"the-georgia-council-on-substance-abuse-supports-fentanyl-testing-strips-encourages-governor-brian-kemp-to-sign-hb-1175-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gc4recovery.org\/gc4rnewwebsite20\/the-georgia-council-on-substance-abuse-supports-fentanyl-testing-strips-encourages-governor-brian-kemp-to-sign-hb-1175-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse Supports Fentanyl testing strips  Encourages Governor Brian Kemp to Sign HB 1175 Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">19 February, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse supports HB 1175 and encourages Governor Brian Kemp to sign this bi-partisan bill which will remove strips that test for fentanyl from the list of drug paraphernalia to help make them more accessible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFentanyl testing strips are a proven harm reduction tool which the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse supports and believes helps save lives,\u201d said Neil Campbell, Executive Director, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Fentanyl-related overdose deaths have spiked since the start of the pandemic, rising more than 106% between May 2020 and April 2021, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFentanyl is identified, rightly so, with heroin but fentanyl is appearing in anything and everything in communities across Georgia. Fentanyl strips save lives, from college and high school campuses, corporate events, social functions, and private moments of pain; lives will be saved with\u00a0a wider prevalence of fentanyl test strips. Fentanyl could find its way into any drug of choice for anyone,\u201d said Jeff Breedlove, Chief of Policy and Communications, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere\u00a0has been a dramatic increase in overdose deaths this past year.\u00a0 We have seen the numbers that outlined the problem, and one that stands out to us is that more and more people are coming to rural hospital emergency rooms for overdoses due to fentanyl.\u00a0 More than 75% of drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved opioids with nearly two-thirds of those involving fentanyl. Every indicator points to a dangerous increase of fentanyl into communities across Georgia,\u201d said Neil Campbell, Executive Director, Georgia Council on Substance Abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFentanyl test strips are available which can quickly determine whether a substance contains fentanyl, but they are in a legal gray area &#8211; you can buy them online but a police officer could consider them a drug-related object. Let\u2019s support both our law enforcement community and the Georgia Recovery Community by removing the gray area around life-saving fentanyl strips \u2013 they are not a tool for drug use, they are a tool to save lives,\u201d said Breedlove.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">###\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jeff Breedlove<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chief of Policy and Communications<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Georgia Council on Substance Abuse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">404-615-5735<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#GARecovers<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 February, 2022 The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse supports HB 1175 and encourages Governor Brian Kemp to sign this bi-partisan bill which will remove strips that test for fentanyl from the list of drug paraphernalia to help make them more accessible. \u201cFentanyl testing strips are a proven harm reduction tool which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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