Youth grants may fund teaching about the potency and dangers of synthetic opioids
What the document says“which may include strategies to increase education and awareness of the potency and dangers of synthetic opioids (including drugs contaminated with fentanyl) and, as appropriate, other emerging drug use or misuse issues”
The section inserts the same clause in two places in section 7102(c) of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, naming education and awareness of the potency and dangers of synthetic opioids, including drugs contaminated with fentanyl, among the strategies the grant program may support.
What the document actually says“which may include strategies to increase education and awareness of the potency and dangers of synthetic opioids (including drugs contaminated with fentanyl) and, as appropriate, other emerging drug use or misuse issues”
Grant money can pay for teaching about strong man-made drugs. That includes drugs mixed with fentanyl. It can cover new drug problems too.
Fentanyl is a very strong drug made in a lab. Small amounts of it are mixed into other drugs. People often do not know it is there.
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