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Georgia Senate committee approves bill to broaden drug-checking tools to detect xylazine and other adulterants
Summary
The Senate committee approved Senate Bill 6 to expand legal use of drug-checking tools beyond fentanyl test strips to include xylazine and other adulterants; proponents said the measure is intended to save lives amid a rise in xylazine-involved overdose deaths.
Senator Kay Kirkpatrick introduced Senate Bill 6 to the Georgia Senate Health Committee, saying the measure would expand the state's existing authorization for fentanyl test strips to cover xylazine and other emerging drug adulterants.
"This bill simply broadens the bill that we passed previously to include tools like xylazine test strips, which now do exist, and tests for other adulterants," Senator Kay Kirkpatrick told the committee, describing the measure as a short, narrowly focused change. She said the number of overdose deaths involving xylazine has risen and that xylazine is not…
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