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Tapestry Health looks to expand harm reduction drug checking services after state law change

HOLYOKE — Wearing gloves, Kyle Harrington watches results appear from an analysis of a drug sample. Harrington points to graphs on a computer screen that lead her to conclude the sample contained heroin, fentanyl, xylazine and lidocaine.

With a drug sample as small as a grain of rice, the machine at Tapestry Health’s Holyoke office can analyze what’s in it. That’s important at a time when deadly fentanyl and other drugs are cropping up in street drugs.

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