"Everyone says 'safe sex' but no one ever says 'safe drugs', you know?": Perspectives on the intersection of drug checking services, drug policy and the overdose crisis. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundOverdose deaths have continued to rise in the US despite heightened public attention and resources. Drug checking shows promise for integration into existing services for people who use drugs (PWUD) across North America.
Jeff Ondocsin +6 more
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From trash to results: shortcomings and benefits of paraphernalia-based drug checking in Finland [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground Drug checking is a harm reduction intervention that combines the identification of the chemical content of a drug with an information-sharing intervention concerning the risks of drug use.
Teemu Kaskela +6 more
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'I t’s not going to be a one size fits all': a qualitative exploration of the potential utility of three drug checking service models in Scotland [PDF]
Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Scotland currently has the highest rates of drug-related deaths in Europe, so drug checking services are being explored due to their potential role in reducing these deaths and related harms.
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“We knew it was coming: we didn’t act” perspectives from people who use drugs and substance use workforce on the impact of delays in implementation of the supervised injection facility and drug checking interventions [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground Harm reduction techniques such as supervised injection facilities and drug checking are evidence-based strategies for reducing fatal overdoses.
Margaret R. Hester +3 more
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Drug Checking: Glimpse into the Recreational Drug Market in Switzerland
CHIMIA, 2023 Manuela Carla Monti +4 more
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Psychological and socio-structural determinants of intentions to use drug checking services. [PDF]
J Health PsycholThis study explored the determinants of intentions to use drug checking services among Australian undergraduate students (N = 324, M age = 22.32 years, SD = 7.21) using an integrated theoretical model that includes social cognition constructs (risk ...
Piatkowski T, Hamilton K, Hagger MS.
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Identification of three unexpected new psychoactive substances at an Australian drug checking service [PDF]
, 2023 Drug checking is a harm reduction measure which provides people with the opportunity to confirm the identity and purity of substances before consumption.
Jess L., Algar +4 more
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Invited Commentary: Drug Checking for Novel Insights Into the Unregulated Drug Supply [PDF]
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2021 AbstractTobias et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2022;191 (2):241–247) present a novel analysis of time trends in fentanyl concentrations in the unregulated drug supply in British Columbia, Canada. The preexisting knowledge about unregulated drugs had come from law-enforcement seizures and postmortem toxicology.
Dasgupta, Nabarun, Figgatt, Mary C
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High-Throughput Qualitative and Quantitative Drug Checking by MALDI HRMS
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 Illicit drugs are a global health problem, since both their acute and chronic consumption have negative impacts on the drug user's health. Drug checking facilities are receiving growing interest as they allow drug users to chemically analyze their ...
Timothée Joye +7 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background Illicit drug overdoses have reached unprecedented levels, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Responses are needed that address the increasingly potent and unpredictable drug supply with better reach to a wide population at risk for overdose.
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