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He claims that besides replacing heroin, fentanyl has become ubiquitous in methamphetamine, citing a woman in Los Angeles who used fentanyl test strips to check her meth, getting positive results "each time" (308). But earlier meth recipes were also notoriously noxious, and Quinones reports that the purity of P2P meth is, in fact, at "record highs" (237). But harm reduction workers in California have warned for several years that unless meth is precisely diluted - unlike how it is prepared on the street - fentanyl test strips frequently deliver false positives.[6] Some adulteration of meth with fentanyl is occurring.[7] But research in California showed that fentanyl metabolites were almost never found in the urine of people who used meth but not opioids, suggesting that meth was not widely contaminated.[8] Had Quinones consulted a broader range of experts, he might have told a more nuanced story. [Extracted from the article] |
