Federal Drug Officials Weigh Whether to Add Testing for Fentanyl

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{"text":"Fentanyl technically has been around since the 1960s, but experts now are labeling the synthetic drug as \"emerging,\" largely because users are dying in greater numbers and it has become more readily available for legal and illegal use.\n\n\nNow, for the second time in about four years, Congress has asked drug agencies if federal workers, including truck drivers, should be tested for use of the drug used legally for pain and illegally for its high.\n\n\nPreviously, federal drug czars said no to add a test panel for fentanyl because it was being mixed with heroin, making it difficult to detect in drug tests. Officials reasoned that users could be identified through testing for heroin, according to Ruth Winecker, a senior Research forensic scientist at RTI International.\n\n\n\"Back then, users were being identified through morphine testing,\" Winecker said in a presentation June 11 to US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Drug Testing Advisory Board. SAMHSA is a subagency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, which is Responsible for issuing drug-testing guidelines for the government.\n\n\nRead more: https://www.ttnews.com/articles/federal-drug-officials-weigh-whether-add-testing-fentanyl","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"they need to start doing randoms on politicians and judges and holds these mofos accountable for DUI's","replyToPid":0}