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Georgia committee expands drug-checking tools to cover xylazine and other adulterants
Summary
The Georgia House Health Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 6 to allow drug-checking tools beyond synthetic opioids, explicitly covering xylazine and other non-opioid adulterants; the measure passed the committee by voice vote.
Senator Kay Kirkpatrick introduced Senate Bill 6 to the Georgia House Health Committee as a narrow measure to expand legal access to drug-checking tools for adulterants beyond synthetic opioids, citing a rise in deaths involving the non-opioid sedative xylazine.
The bill would broaden earlier language that legalized fentanyl test strips so that test strips or similar tools that detect xylazine or other emerging adulterants are not treated as illegal paraphernalia. "This is probably the shortest bill that you're gonna see this session. Senate bill 6, and this is about drug overdoses,"…
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