fentanyl has led to a spike in overdose deaths often because the user has no idea the drug they're taking is contaminated a fatal amount of fentanyl can be the size of a pencil tip so tackling the fentanyl crisis has led to some out-of-the-box thinking one idea providing test kits so drug users can see whether the drugs they're using are contaminated by fentanyl test strips are illegal in some states but U.S senator Cory Booker and Congressman Josh gottheimer are supporting legislation that would fund the kits to get them into the hands of those most at risk of a fentanyl overdose with more than 109,000 109,000 Americans died last year from an opioid epidemic folks here are not surrendering to that Darkness but saying we can show a different way