(MIRROR INDY) — Staff at the nonprofit hear every day about someone’s child, parent or sibling dying from using a drug they didn’t know was laced with fentanyl. The test strips can save lives by detecting the potent synthetic drug, which was found in 94% of Indy’s opioid overdoses last year, according to Marion County Coroner’s Office data.
But there was a huge question mark hanging over the use of test strips: People wanted to know if they’d be arrested under Indiana’s drug paraphernalia law.
It criminalizes devices that test the “strength, purity or effectiveness” of a substance — though it was up to local prosecutors to decide if test strips fit the definition…