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luulapants · 7 months ago

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Surprising no one who works in prisoner advocacy: the DOC panic over drugs in the mail is based on absurdly bad data, and prison officials are not interested in good data or addressing the actual sources of drugs in prison (staff) because what they really want is to punish the people in their custody

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NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, New York City’s jails commissioner, Louis Molina, issued a dire warning to local lawmakers: fentanyl was pouring into Rikers Island through the mail, he said, spurring an overdose crisis among the jail’s detainees and putting guards at risk.

As evidence of the insidious threat, Molina passed around a child’s drawing of a reindeer, one of hundreds of seized items he said had been “literally soaked in the drug and mailed to people in custody.”

But that claim was based on faulty drug-testing kits with a stunning 85% false positive rate, according to a report released Wednesday by the city’s Department of Investigation. The report found the city vastly overstated the prevalence of fentanyl sent by mail to detainees.

When investigators retested 71 pieces of mail initially flagged by field tests as containing fentanyl, only 10 actually showed traces of the drug. The drawing of a reindeer highlighted by Molina was fentanyl-free.

Field tests indicating an influx of fentanyl-laced mail to Rikers Island fueled a yearslong campaign by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to bar people in city custody from receiving physical mail.

As a replacement, city officials proposed redirecting mail to an offsite vendor, who would then upload it digitally for the incarcerated person to read on a tablet — a practice used in other correctional systems, including New York’s state prisons. So far, the proposal has been blocked by a jail oversight board.

Jocelyn Strauber, the commissioner of the Department of Investigation, said the city should reassess its ongoing effort to bar detainees from receiving mail, given the report’s findings.

“The field tests don’t support a concern that a high rate of fentanyl-laced objects are coming in from the mail,” she told The Associated Press. “To the extent policy determinations are based on flawed data, they ought to be reconsidered.”

Detainee advocates have long contended that drugs primarily enter the jail system via employees, who can easily smuggle them inside and sell them to gang leaders. In recent years, dozens of correction officers have been charged in multiple investigations of smuggling rings on Rikers Island.

In its report, the Department of Investigation said corrections officials had failed to implement many of the department’s previous recommendations aimed at screening staff for contraband.

In an email statement, a Department of Correction spokesperson said the agency would review the report and continue refining its testing processes. “Field tests are a tool used to quickly assess potential threats, and while not perfect, they play an important role in our safety protocols,” the statement said.

Such field tests have gained popularity in recent years alongside a spike in opioid overdose deaths nationwide, allowing law enforcement officials to bypass the lengthy lab process to determine if a substance contains narcotics.

But experts have long raised questions about the strips’ effectiveness. Under federal regulations, manufacturers are required to include language on their packaging indicating that results are preliminary until confirmed by a lab — something that rarely happens in correctional settings.

Last November, New York’s state prison system was found to have wrongly punished more than 2,000 detainees due to false positives from drug tests manufactured by Sirchie Finger Print Laboratories.

For years, the test strips used on Rikers Island, the city-run jail system, were also provided by Sirchie. But after complaints about the reliability of the tests, the Department of Correction switched to kits made by DetectaChem last April.

The review by the Department of Investigation found DetectaChem’s test strips had a false positive rate of 79%, while Sirchie’s were wrong 91% of the time.

Inquiries to Sirchie were not returned.

Travis Kisner, the chief operating officer of DetectaChem, said the company was still reviewing the report, but added: “We stand behind our product.”

#prison abolition #incarceration

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maeve-an-bhanchainti · 9 months ago

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so I carry narcan everywhere I go just in case I'm in a situation where I need it—I'll have 6 years clean in December and am primarily surrounded by people in recovery—but you really never know when a situation may arise. the reason I bring it up is because my kit recently expired and I received a new one, and the distro I receive it from is also offering fentanyl test strips while supplies last. this is free to anyone in the US. all you have to do is watch a quick tutorial on how to identify an overdose and administer narcan, take a short quiz to make sure you retain that info, and they ship it discreetly with instructions for use. please carry narcan if you or someone you love uses recreational drugs. please test your drugs. stay safe, I love you

#harm reduction #tw drugs #narcan #overdose awareness

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memecucker · 10 months ago

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irt fentanyl mixing in other drugs, it seems to be genuinely common. which I think makes sense since fentanyl is supposed to be so cheap, it's not a financial loss to mix it with other drugs. at least this is what it seems like in Philly [https://www.phila.gov/2023-10-02-philadelphia-records-more-than-1400-overdose-deaths-in-2022-deaths-among-black-residents-rose-nearly-20/]

Obviously a solution to this would be to make stimulants legal so that they can go through quality assurance to make sure they're pure but that's probably never going to happen. It's disappointing as fuck bc I probably need to buy a fent test kit before trying coke for the first time -_- lame

yeah fentanyl getting mixed into stuff is real and with coke i did kinda wonder why you would cut a stimulant with an opiate (vague stuff about "enhancing the effects aside) but unless theres something particular with the chemistry i dont know about i guess the idea might be that fent can provide the initial numbing effect in the nose that could trick someone into thinking the coke they bought is good shit.

that said the thing i was wondering about is specifically about people talking about weed mixed with fent. A white powder mixed with weed doesnt make too much sense if youre trying to dilute and fent doesnt seem like something youd smoke with an open flame anyway but other people have pointed out cross contamination on scales can be a factor which makes more sense (and probably also accounts for some amount of it being mixed into other drugs alongside deliberate mixing).

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disgracedmilfman · 5 months ago

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If I have anyone following me in Seattle with a little extra income, I would love to recommend you donate to Real Rent and the People's Harm Reduction Alliance.

Real Rent money goes to the Duwamish slowly buying their land back and doing habitat restoration.

The PHRA makes fentanyl testing kits so fewer people will die of an accidental overdose from laced drugs. They also hand out Narcan, condoms, tampons, handwarmers, food, all sorts of things for homeless people (or anyone else who stops by). If you're trans and you want clean needles to inject HRT with - housed or not - great resource.

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postmoderntongues · 2 months ago

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wake up bro new opoid overdose crisis just dropped

the next thing on the 2025 bingo card is super-fentanyl

lethal in orally ingested GRAINS you cant even test a bag for that with a kit they are trying to thin the drug use community even fartther

to avoid getting undercut by street guys with built in customer bases like they did once they legalized weed, they're thinning us out to ensure dominance of the market once they go full legal with substances within the next decade

why would they invent super-fentanyl JFC thats like "we made the killer robot from the classic scifi novel wouldnt it fucking suck if a killer robot existed and we had to deal with it lol technological progress sure is fun" levels of theres no good excuse they're not even hiding it they're contaminating the market to eliminate competition with the state-distributed legal market why would you make something that a grain of it ORALLY not even spiked can kill an adult like was that just on a fucking dare is that what like government chemical scientists do to feel edgy there is no even plausible excuse for this being a thing that exists

idk if you remember the fent crisis when it first hit but a lot of people we kind of know or are used to seeing around but never spoke to are going to start vanishing fent takes enough that a hot bag could be detected with a kit so u dont do an h sized line of it and die but really until fent only people who spiked died of accidental opiate overdoses and even then almost exclusively on first dose post relapse because they misjudge how their tolerance has decreased and cook a shot they were doing at their worst before detox with a clean system and misjudge the shot by like a fucking gram or more like most maintaining IV users who have reached physical addiction on average shoot about a g at a time and whats called a bundle or 10gs a day. The physical limit of powder you can pack into both nostrils didnt used to be a potentially fatal dose for a first time user even. until a decade ago even with no tolerance an inch and a ha;f standard looking line was a reasonable starter dose for somebody without a history or tolerance. then fent came out and a conservative starter sized line could kill u by snorting it. This is dosed in grains like certain RCs were you cant test a bag for a bad grain or pick out which pill might have a bad grain pressed into it this s going to be very very very bad especially on the music/art scene for way more people than ur aware of because opiate addicts can be high functioning and maintain for long periods and completely hide their addiction and the majority of autistic/mentally ill adults and also adults on the art scene at least occasionally indulge in something harder than weed more people than you can imagine surrounding us arent making it to christmas and its not even impossible ill be one of them because grains orally ingested grains the only reason you invent that is to kill people ur not treatng medical pain patients even severe burn victims with something that kills you in less than a dozen swallowed grains

jfc somebody could put that on a goddamn cigarette filter im not even tweaking like yes i am but im not being alarmist at all if this verse is anything like the last verse before this little chorus of shit stabilizing weve enjoyed the past 3 years and im not even going to deny that i have ptsd from working harm reduction during the first wave of the fent crisis but theres no way to test for something that can kill you in a dozen SWALLOWED grains not even spiked a dozen grains is the fucking amount u sprinkle into the kit to change the color and test the purity/flag for contaminants like there's a possibility that were doing a second round same as the first but a little bit louder and a little bit worse now that the opiate community has learned how to safely dose fent its actually higher street value than h and thats why its no longer a filler risk we adapted and they literally adapted back with their full fucking chests and were like first operation was a success, do it bigger and with more explosions and tits in the sequel this is looking like a fullblown Saw 2 level of escalation from a film filmed in a single room and one limb amputation to a newline production with markie mark and the introduction of the traps gimmick of a sequel to the fent crisis

ive taken RCs that were dosed in grains where the guy put a half dozen grains on a spoon and u sniffed it and it was so little u werent even sure u got it and then 3 minutes later ur in a 15 hour RC hallucinogen engagement like this is not an alarist thing when they are talking about the amount ive personally taken stuff as active as a strip of l for twice as long that was measured out into what looked like half a dozen grains of table sugar that potency in that quantity is something ive personally experienced like shit might get a little harrowing again for a while but worse and less prevention harm reduction ability this time they invented the super computer from the famous scifi novel "we wish this super computer wasnt a thing that existed that is a constant problem in our lives" i hate super fent i hate vaping i hate the word unalived at this point ill happily go back to being called slurs to my face in the hallway and drinking OG formula 4loko and date another guy in the bloods with multiple kids again and listen to bad techno with UWUrandum edgy lyrics sung by known pedophiles to an audience of little girls who lost their virginities on sconstruction sites instead of waiting to be euthanized on fictional farm and recorded as a covid outbreak fatality in the paperwork sent to my family with full blown open nazis being a thing you encounter like outside of institutional life in the real world putting bumper stickers on their cars and shit cigarettes are $11 a pack for fucking pall malls that was newport prices when i smoked and they change the shape of the only available phone charger in stores every 9 months while i ubereats ashwaganda to my front door because im taking every chemical possible to quiet the shit in my head that i know is not real logically and everybodys on antidepressants so nobody can get a goddamn red blooded american erection to do anything but get blown with the future is fucking ass

like even in oz theres a scene where a character ODs on H in the 90s and my drug sperg ass was like thats less than a ball of powder and hes not spiking it and has a strong enough tolerance to be in fullblown physical WDs within 12 hours of in show time from the last dose we see him do before we see him in full detox and i was like thats literally not even a fatal dose garunteed if you spike it thats a high dose its a risky dose but a bundle a day being the average habit thats 4 balls over a waking period so 12-14 hours and he doesnt have a needle so hes either eating it or snorting it that volume of 90s straingth east coast powder is not a fatal dose worst case ud vomit (a much more common way of people who dont spike dying h related deaths pre fent, passing out on their backs puking and not coming to and winding up asparating it) and theres no vomit on his body when its shown which again drug sperg unless you spike in almost any od case ud vomit before the levels in your blood became toxic thats how i survived the haldol OD u pke most toic doses of substances before a toxic dose is actually able to be absorbed u cant keep it down physically thats literally why im alive ive attempted suicide by OD over a dozen times since my first attempt fall of 7h grade thats why more females attempt more frequently and there are more female "persistent attempt survivors" bc statistically most of us try by OD of some sort where more males complete because most male suicides are self inflicted gunshot wounds to the head its hard to hold down enough to become toxic long enough for a toxic dose to be absorbed your body wants to live it recognizes it as toxic and rejects it very few attempts by OD result in completion and until about a decade ago id look at a ball of h on a show and be like "prop department fucked up, that wasnt a fatal amount to a user with a tolerance even if IVd which once again even that used to happen with h related suicides (addiction and mental illness go hand in hand H isnt my substance but there but for the grace of god go I because I prefered k and acid and uppers and didnt fall in love with H when i tried it like i very well could have and a lot of people dealing with the struggles of addiction on top of what they became addicted to relieve attempt so again even among IV users other than hot batches circulating on occasion that were fucking state planted tainted product or purposeful poisoning attempts as a form of attempted murder among the using world directed at indeviduals specifically relapses and suicides are how people died from H overdose

that was 30 years ago. We now have a chemical so unnessesarily potent that i couldnt even see it having a potential FOR medical use because if 12 grains orally is fatal ur not going to be dosing mfs by the grain a 30 mg oxy pain no longer exists a 5mg oxy and i let them put my teeth back in place with pliers like a medical reinactment of the torture scene from oldboy didnt feel a mf thing even fent was supposidly justified as being intended for transdermal use only to treat severe cases like burn victims and car crash victis and late stage terminal patients who the amount of oxy required would cause vomiting in most people f taken orally and would still require such a high quantity of liquid in iv form that between quantity and consistancy would most likely blow the vein in a fortnight tops like even to OD through IV if u were a user with a physical dependance shooting more than two grrams so twice a casual maintainance dose for a bundle a day habit ud be as likely to blow the vain injecting that volume of liquid as to be able to inject that quantity and even that would just be a heavy dose for a haitual user not a fatal one it used to be HARD to die from opiate OD outside of 1st dose post relapse and suicide

ive watched amounts of people die in front of me working harm reduction when the crisis first hit that like im pretty sure most people whove never been active combat veterans usually see in a lifetime smalltalk in certain circles of friends of mine and catching up from high school with the old classmates is just listing the names of who we found out ODd during the crisis that we knew from high school since the last time you exchanged the updated list f names

like the girl i lost my virginity to who i have the cute stories of napping in starewells together died. Like literally 4 of my girlfriends from high school died, dead, not alive anymore. So many people i used to chill with. Most people i knew used but they had good weed connects so id just get stoned with them while they used bc i didnt like drugs that made me sleepy and was paranid that since it was a depressant it would cause my body to burn fewer calories per minute in maintainance state so it just was never my thing. Like i was always very "when in rome" about it, its very pleasant, ive even purposly used fent itself i bought bars id been told were fent cut bananas which havent exsted in half a decade so i knew they were pressed but i couldnt get pain meds while my teeth healed so i just took what i was told was a safe measured oral dose of fent cut with xans (they mix the batch as much filler as safe, crush the pills to powder, mix it up, and re press them to stretch 100 into 150-200 depending on how cut) and took that for the pain we fgured out how to not only detect but safely dose fent to the point where most adicts prefer it to h bc its easier to shoot less volume higher potency shit so more convenient to ingest once the safe peramiters for ngestion were estabilshed. But powdered fent was never supposed to exist, its only that potency because it was eant for extreme pain cases that could only be treated transdermally that was the justification for synthecizing it, theres no medical scenario where you need so much of such a high potency dose of opiates to somebody to rerout the side effects of traditional consumpton methods of traditional strength opiates to justify synthecizing this my grandma was on fent patches and i grabbed the last of them when she was moved to hospice because if i didnt my dad would and she didnt need them in hospice anyway i put one of those fucking things on and slept for 72 hours thinking id only nodded out for a second woke up completely euphoric and disoriented, patch wore off after a little under a week of nonstop wear, if the medicated part was cut into strips you could stick it to ur pussy or mouth bc the membraine and rout to the bloodstream is thinner than the skin of say ur arm one of those fuckers cut into strips lasted half a week of constantly being so blitzed all i could do was comit sloth and pass back out after realizing id passed out. now we are talking orally ingested grains. That could be sprinkled in a fucking drink even easier than soemthing like G, people are going to put it on cigs and in drinks to date rape people and the victims will fatally OD and after market pills you cant break off a crumb and test for GRAINS in a skittle sized pressed pill

this is going to get dissolved in liquid lsd and painted onto fucking blotter and kill people from fucking tabs

also as a multiple attempt survivor the existance of a substance so lethally potent in such small doses meaning a tiny amount of physical chemical substance that can be absorbed at a faster rate and is so low doze that you couldnt get a signifigant amount out of you just by puking means i now have a significantly more efficient way to make a permanent choice in a temporary state. Which like the only reason im not loudly and pro choice suicide because what the fuck do you mean you can lock me up for trying to murder my own goddamn self thats insane in terms of my bodily autonomy beliefs but theres no way to condone it that doesnt end in euthenasia instead of treatment to save money presented as the compassionate coice and the "right to die" like were seeing in canada

if i was a canadian citizen i could make an appointment with a dr while watching a tv show and be dead before the next episode aired with my diagnosis, why would they offer "maintaining a tragic not worth living existence of agony" instead of a "compassionate perminant end to my medical suffering" second one is a whole lot fucking cheaper the right is going to euthenize us and say we were sent to farms and stager the release of the medical documents as medical epidemic outbreaks the left are going to get us to book our own lethal injection at a local Claires next to where they peirce newborn's ears like shits actually getting scary

like as a disabled person entering this era and a compulsive polysubstance addict with low in the moment risk assessment ability theres not an insignificant chance that my life will end by way of Isotonitazene OD either in a ditch in a mass grave on the "farm" or through a formally booked lethal injection like a fucking haircut or through my own inability to resist the temptation of use despite the risks or when i get access to it in exactly the wrong mental state and finally complete like we were most likely doing heart attack if the neurological situation didnt degrade to the end of command of organ function first but now its looking like Isotonitazene OD

but the info about it available now is mostly just word of mouth and personal anticdotes of encounters and already a few ODs circulating around the harm reduction and opiate use communities

fent was supposed to be scary, this looks like its goal is to be EFFECTIVE

within the first 6 months of the crisis i had about a dozen and a half dead friends close enough that as a female i felt safe using depressants and falling asleep and taking immobilizing quantities of K around and more dead acquaintances and siblings of friends and former classmates and facebook friends from bar bathrooms or raves or kids i knew from counseling programs and group therapy and hospital stays and afterschool programs for troubled kids and people i was connected to through the rave scene/whoel shenanagains i was into upstate/kids i went to church with/kids i fucking babysat as toddlers in my teens than i was even aware was such a high quantity of people i fucking KNEW there were days where i got like a half dozen names between waking up and going to sleep i literally didnt know i even knew as many people as i knew that died in the first 6 months and im still getting fresh names found out about this kid dwayne this funny little fat kid my cousin was friends with who had a crush on me and puked every time he smoked and tried to freestyle rap over MGMT songs died in the epidemic when i met that friend of my cousins a few weeks ago

but even that was dresden we're facing down a full blown hiroshima on the horizon

theyll be able to use it to taint non dispensary weed and untaxed cannabis products like vapes even this is deadass not even trying to hide it a move on the market this is the christening scene of the godfather about to pop off this is the walter white 20 kills in a minute scene where he orders the prison hits they're eliinating the competition through becoming the only safe source while also eliminating the established market that will undercut the taxed product like what happened with weed

this is out in the open unapologetic gangster shit

theyll be able to dissolve it in water and spray it invisibly onto plant matter directly

even in the one disputed recorded case of "fent tainted weed" to anybody who know what weed looks like it was visibly covered in powder nobody would smoke that not realizing it was covered in powder

unless they thought the powder was coke but thats also 00s as fuck

and even then coke has a strong taste and opiates in powdered form are acrid like vinegar. even with fent knowing ur dealer and doing a bump before u cut a line when u opened a new bag was sufficient harm reduction to prevent if not uncomfortable intensity at least fatal overdose

put 6 grains of sugar in your mouth and tell me how strong the taste is

we invented the super deadly addictive poison from the famous dystopian short story "everybody is dropping dead because they're addicted to a lethal substance how ironic the thing u love is killing you very poetic but for realz this totally blows and i wish it werent happening"

jesus fuckign christ

i will let my white supremist drunk father who yells at fox news when he doesnt consider the female reporters to be hot enough to have tv careers and switched beers for 6 months because he couldnt cope with his attraction to Dylan Mulvanie that if you can agree on nothing else he has common ground with a liberal bisexual musician kid who drinks diet coke literally just for the love of the MF game and its that the present is absolute horse shit in every measurable way

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snapbackdad · 8 months ago

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Been working on slowly building up my first aid kits, today I picked up some naloxone (I was hoping to also get fentanyl test strips but they were out).

Naloxone (Brand name Narcan) can prevent opioid overdose death.

I highly recommend taking a course on preventing opioid overdose and learning how to use naloxone, especially if you or someone you know (family, friends, neighbors, etc.) takes opioids; whether prescription or not.

Naloxone is available over-the-counter/no prescription required in all fifty states.

Here are some resources to check out:

https://www.getnaloxonenow.org/#home

#naloxone #overdose prevention #first aid #mutual aid

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scarylullabies · 4 months ago

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water bottle

notebook

planner with budget

current knitting project including pattern and tools

book I'm currently reading

ditty bag with various period products, in case someone needs some and they prefer different ones than I use

first aid kit

sunglasses in hardshell case

second sunglasses case but this one is filled with condoms, lube, fentanyl test strips, and naloxone

CPR mask

floss

hand lotion

sunscreen

lockpicks

little mirror

mp3 player and earbuds

unitarian universalist statement of values booklet with some prayers and poems and quotes and such

flash drive

solar chargeable power bank

one of those multi-port charging cable adapters that looks like a cat o nine tails

coin purse

know your rights (immigration edition) information sheet with contact info for immigration lawyers in my area

lil bottle of tajin

hand sanitizer

pen case full of pens and pencils

handcuffs

hand fan

camping fork

mini tarot card deck

work cell and work id badge

gum

insect repellant wipes

shashibo cube fidget toy

chalk in case I need to do graffiti

zippered pod with bobby pins, hair clips, and hair ties

and I used to have a really sick multitool but I forgot to take it out one day before flying and the TSA took it away

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

#I'm like this bc I'm a lesbian and bc I took public transit for most of my adolescent and young adult life #and bc it's shit in my neck of the woods I never knew when I was gonna get stuck somewhere - sometimes overnight and outdoors #somewhere around here is an old post someone wrote about minimalism and how being poor makes you carry a bunch of crap with you

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ittybittyave · 25 days ago

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Say goodbye to barriers and hello to accessible health care! Nevada County's Health Access Vending (HAVEN) machines are here to provide free, confidential, and life-saving supplies like Narcan, fentanyl test strips, hygiene kits, and more. Learn more and find locations below! #HAVENprogram #nevadacounty #grassvalley #nevadacity #publichealth #firstaid #harmreduction #communitysupport

#california #grass valley #harm reduction #HAVEN #Health Access #life #Mental Health #nevada city #Nevada County #public health #rural living #small town

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ronkilgarlinjr · 1 month ago

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Facing the Future of Healthcare: A Conversation with Ron Kilgarlin, ASC

Introduction

The healthcare industry is standing at a pivotal crossroads — grappling with issues of rising costs, access disparities, outdated infrastructure, and the ever-growing demand for speed, accuracy, and personalization in diagnostics. While policymakers, providers, and innovators continue to explore solutions, few voices are as uniquely positioned in this landscape as Ron Kilgarlin, CEO of American Screening Corporation (ASC) and founder of RevealBackground.com.

With decades of experience in medical diagnostics, compliance, and employment screening, Ron brings a deep, hands-on understanding of what’s broken in the system — and more importantly, what can be fixed. In this candid conversation, Ron offers an unfiltered perspective on the biggest challenges healthcare faces today, what solutions are on the horizon, and how companies like AmericanScreeningCorp.com and RevealBackground.com are actively reshaping the future.

Healthcare in 2025: A Broken System or a Reinvention Opportunity?

According to Ron, the biggest issue in healthcare is not a lack of resources, but a lack of alignment.

“We have incredible technology, brilliant people, and groundbreaking therapies — but we’re not connecting the dots fast enough. Diagnostics, patient access, and compliance still operate in silos,” Ron explains. “That fragmentation leads to delays, miscommunication, and, ultimately, patient harm.”

He points to the supply chain shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic as a turning point. “What we learned during the pandemic is that speed, flexibility, and data are the real currency in healthcare — not just medication and machines.”

This insight became the foundation for how ASC and Reveal have evolved post-2020.

ASC’s Mission: Empowering Diagnosis and Prevention

American Screening Corporation, accessible online at AmericanScreeningCorp.com, was built on the belief that accurate, fast, and affordable diagnostics are the gateway to better healthcare outcomes.

Founded in Louisiana in 2004, ASC started with a handful of drug testing kits and has grown into a globally recognized manufacturer and distributor of medical testing devices, serving major healthcare providers, employers, government agencies, law enforcement, and educational institutions.

What Sets ASC Apart?

FDA & CLIA-Waived Products: ASC offers hundreds of test kits that are FDA-cleared and CLIA-waived, making them suitable for point-of-care use in both clinical and non-clinical settings.

Rapid Turnaround: Whether it’s a 12-panel urine drug test, a fentanyl strip, or a genetic swab, ASC ships most orders same-day, including bulk orders for high-volume clients.

Domestic Manufacturing: ASC manufactures most of its products in-house, ensuring quality control, supply chain stability, and compliance with U.S. regulations.

Custom Branding and Private Labeling: Clinics, treatment centers, and labs can customize test kits under their own brand, helping them streamline operations and build trust with patients.

Telehealth Integration: ASC’s at-home diagnostic kits can be integrated into telehealth platforms, allowing doctors to monitor patients remotely with real-time results.

“We’re not just a distributor,” Ron emphasizes. “We’re a partner in healthcare delivery — helping organizations catch problems earlier and intervene smarter.”

Public Health Starts with Early Detection

Ron is passionate about one topic above all else: prevention through early detection. It’s why ASC invests so heavily in drug testing and diagnostic innovation.

“Fentanyl overdoses, STIs, chronic disease — these aren’t unsolvable problems. We just have to catch them before they become catastrophic,” he says.

For instance, ASC was one of the first companies in the U.S. to roll out synthetic opioid test strips, helping treatment centers and emergency responders detect dangerous analogs like xylazine and carfentanil.

Similarly, ASC’s infectious disease kits — including COVID-19, flu, RSV, and HIV tests — are used in thousands of clinics to provide immediate results, enabling faster treatment and isolation when necessary.

Innovating at the Intersection of Healthcare and Employment

Healthcare doesn’t stop at hospitals and clinics. It extends into workplaces, schools, transportation, and public infrastructure — areas where safety, compliance, and employee well-being intersect.

That’s where RevealBackground.com comes in.

Co-founded by Ron, Reveal is a comprehensive background screening platform that empowers employers to make informed hiring decisions without compromising on speed or compliance.

RevealBackground.com: Solving Critical Pain Points

All-in-One Platform: From criminal checks and employment verification to drug testing and identity validation, Reveal brings everything into a single, user-friendly interface.

Industry-Specific Screening: Reveal offers specialized background check workflows for healthcare, transportation, education, and government — each tailored to meet unique compliance requirements.

Integrated Drug Testing: Employers can bundle background checks with real-time drug screening results (powered by ASC), improving hiring timelines and reducing risk.

Developer-Friendly API: Reveal’s modern API allows HR software platforms to integrate seamless background checks into onboarding flows.

FCRA & EEOC Compliance: Built-in automation ensures that employers remain compliant with state and federal laws, minimizing legal exposure.

“Hiring is healthcare,” Ron notes. “If you’re putting a caregiver in someone’s home or behind the wheel of a school bus, you need to know they’re safe, healthy, and compliant.”

Ron’s Response to the Pandemic: Action Over Panic

When COVID-19 hit, the world panicked. Ron mobilized.

Within weeks, ASC ramped up production of PPE, thermometers, and antigen test kits, shipping hundreds of thousands of units to frontline responders. The company worked 24/7 to ensure hospitals, correctional facilities, and EMS teams had what they needed to stay operational.

“We didn’t have the luxury of delay. If someone needed 100,000 tests by Friday, we made it happen,” says Ron.

This momentum also fast-tracked the development of at-home testing options, which remain critical today in a hybrid care model where patients often seek virtual consultations before physical appointments.

Looking Forward: Data, AI, and Precision Diagnostics

As we look to the future, Ron sees three transformational forces shaping healthcare:

Data Personalization

The one-size-fits-all model of diagnosis is disappearing. With access to patient-specific data — from test results to genetics — healthcare is becoming more precise, proactive, and preventative.

ASC is exploring advanced data dashboards that allow providers to analyze trends across large patient populations, flag at-risk individuals, and personalize treatment plans.

AI in Background Screening

RevealBackground.com is piloting AI-powered decision engines to identify red flags in candidate histories — not based on arbitrary checklists but contextual, pattern-driven insights that balance risk with opportunity.

Mobile Accessibility

From telehealth-integrated testing to smartphone-based result delivery, ASC and Reveal are committed to mobile-first design, ensuring that even the most remote users have access to life-saving information.

“Accessibility without mobility is meaningless,” Ron adds. “You have to meet people where they are — on their devices, on their time.”

Challenges That Still Need Solving

Despite their successes, Ron and his teams are clear-eyed about the work that remains. Among the most pressing challenges:

Healthcare Worker Burnout: Shortages and burnout are reducing the quality of care across the board.

Misinformation: Misleading health content online continues to erode public trust in legitimate diagnostics.

Insurance and Pricing Transparency: Patients still struggle to understand what diagnostics cost — and what their insurance covers.

Mental Health Diagnostics: Current testing technologies fall short in identifying early signs of mental health decline, especially in adolescents and remote populations.

ASC and Reveal are actively exploring new product lines, educational tools, and collaborations to address these issues head-on.

A Word on Leadership and Resilience

Ron’s leadership style is characterized by urgency, adaptability, and grounded optimism. When asked what keeps him motivated, he gives a simple but powerful answer:

“We’re in the business of saving lives. That never gets old.”

He credits his team — warehouse staff, engineers, compliance officers, customer support reps — with helping ASC and Reveal scale while maintaining integrity.

“We’re not a faceless tech company. We’re 80 people in Louisiana making things that matter,” he says. “And we care deeply about the people who use our products.”

Advice for Healthcare Entrepreneurs

For entrepreneurs hoping to enter or disrupt the healthcare space, Ron offers five key principles:

Focus on One Problem First: Don’t try to reinvent the whole system. Fix one process, test, or tool.

Build for Compliance, Not Just Speed: Especially in healthcare, regulatory readiness is not optional.

Prioritize Access Over Complexity: Great products are useless if patients or providers can’t easily use them.

Learn from the Front Lines: Spend time with nurses, HR managers, EMTs — they’ll tell you what really needs fixing.

Be Ready to Pivot: If COVID taught us anything, it’s that agility is the ultimate asset.

About American Screening Corporation

AmericanScreeningCorp.com is a trusted U.S.-based manufacturer and distributor of medical diagnostics, including urine drug test kits, saliva testing kits, infectious disease panels, and genetic test supplies. The company serves customers across healthcare, law enforcement, addiction recovery, and education with FDA-approved, CLIA-waived solutions and rapid order fulfillment. Whether you’re testing for fentanyl, drugs, or STDs, ASC provides precision and peace of mind.

About Reveal Background

RevealBackground.com offers modern, compliant background checks and drug screening solutions for employers across healthcare, transportation, finance, education, and more. The platform integrates with hiring workflows to reduce turnaround time, ensure legal compliance, and deliver trusted candidate data with just a few clicks. From nationwide criminal checks to instant MVR reports and occupational drug screening, Reveal helps organizations hire faster and safer.

Final Thoughts

Healthcare is not just a system — it’s a living, evolving relationship between people, data, and trust. Innovators like Ron Kilgarlin are helping reshape that relationship by breaking down barriers, accelerating diagnostics, and restoring humanity to healthcare and hiring alike.

If the future of healthcare is going to be brighter, faster, and more equitable, it will be because of leaders who choose action over talk — and platforms that deliver solutions, not just promises.

“We’re not waiting for the future to arrive,” Ron concludes. “We’re building it — one test, one hire, one life at a time.”

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