Mike DeWine’s executive order legalizing fentanyl test strips, which can prevent opioid overdose deaths, is a strategy that should have come a decade ago, say the hosts of Today in Ohio. The action comes as action cocaine has now surpassed fentanyl as the leading cause of overdose deaths in Cuyahoga County. Podcast hosts asked why DeWine’s life-saving measure took so long to implement, when it would have been helpful when opioid deaths are at their all-time highs. “And now when that’s on the wane, that’s when we get this, the law and the executive order. But the podcast hosts emphasized that these measures might have saved lives if implemented years earlier.