States across the U.S. are rapidly legalizing fentanyl test strips

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States [1]

It would really help all of us if all media used the phrase "accidental overdose" because that's what they are.

When media uses the word "overdose" alone, most readers believe the individual who "overdosed" was ingesting illegal drugs and knew there was a risk overdose.

This is patently untrue.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29262202 - Opiod Overdose

> Harm reduction, which Maritza Perez of the Drug Policy Alliance described in an interview with The Daily 202 as “meeting people who use drugs where they're at to keep them alive,” has not traditionally been popular with the GOP.

That's a very recent definition of harm reduction most closely associated with the left wing of the Democratic party. Harm reduction as received from Europe was and in many respects remains more of a consequentialist concept. Few people would accept that the situation in, say, San Francisco is either to the benefit of addicts nor an inevitability, but it's exactly where the far left's conception of harm reduction has taken the city.

Consequentialist harm reduction is a much easier leap for Republicans; this would be just another step in their slow walk away from retributive justice. I don't see most Americans, let alone Republicans, ever embracing the American far left's conception of harm reduction, notwithstanding that in the woefully confused discourse (deliberately confused, I often suspect) many may claim to do so.