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Table 3 Frequency of FTS use in specific situations among SSP clients in southern Wisconsin who use FTS

From: Characteristics and context of fentanyl test strip use among syringe service clients in southern Wisconsin

Reason

Mean (SD)

You get a new baggie or batch?

2.4 (1.1)

Your supplier puts out a new batch?

2.6 (1.1)

Your supplier says the batch is strong?

2.7 (1.2)

Your drugs look different from what you have used before?

2.5 (1.1)

  1. When you have a fentanyl test strip, how often do you use a test strip to test your drugs if… (0–4: never, rarely, some of the time, most of the time, every time)
  2. Key Likert questions were mapped from 0 to 4 and described by the mean (SD)
  3. FTS fentanyl test strip, SSP syringe service program, SD standard deviation