NOT JUST FOR ADDICTS –
Nov. 12, 2025 – The obvious places to stock FTS are school bathrooms and locker rooms. Bars, nightclubs, festivals, dormitories—all the places frequented by people who don’t identify as drug users, but who do use drugs. They could be $1 each, in dispensers next to the tampons. The original purpose of FTS was urinalysis testing, and so because they’re designed to pick up fentanyl after it’s been metabolized and peed out—rather than dipped into it directly—they’re extraordinarily sensitive. They can pick up trace quantities of fentanyl that even the higher-tech drug-checking technology can’t.
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s “One Pill Can Kill” campaign has very successfully marketed the idea that 2 mg of fentanyl means you die, which invites people to believe that the danger comes from just the presence of fentanyl in and of itself. This isn’t true—no substance is toxic by nature even in trace amounts—but for people who don’t expect and don’t want fentanyl in the drugs they’re about to use, and won’t go into withdrawal if they change their minds based on the results, a “Yes” or “No” fentanyl test is enough.
