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What is needed for implementing drug checking services in the context of the overdose crisis? A qualitative study to explore perspectives of potential service users [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background The current illicit drug overdose crisis within North America and other countries requires expanded and new responses to address unpredictable and potentially lethal substances, including fentanyl analogues, in the unregulated drug market ...
Bruce Wallace, Thea van Roode, Flora Pagan, Paige Phillips, Hailly Wagner, Shane Calder, Jarred Aasen, Bernie Pauly, Dennis Hore   +8 more
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"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 ONE
BackgroundOverdose 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, Lissa Moran, Daniel Ciccarone, Simon Outram, Dan Werb, Nicole Holm, Emily A Arnold   +6 more
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Utilization of drug checking services in Austria: a cross-sectional online survey [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background The use of psychoactive substances is a key public health issue due to its impact on mental, physical, and social health. Integrated drug checking is a well-known harm reduction and addiction prevention measure and is currently implemented in ...
Alexandra Karden, Tobias Fragner, Cornelia Feichtinger, Julian Strizek, Daragh T. McDermott, Igor Grabovac   +5 more
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Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background The impact of policing practices on the engagement of people who use drugs (PWUD) with harm reduction services is well evidenced. Although the police have traditionally taken an enforcement role in responding to drug use, it is increasingly ...
Danilo Falzon, Elizabeth V. Aston, Hannah Carver, Wendy Masterton, Bruce Wallace, Harry Sumnall, Fiona Measham, Emma Fletcher, Rosalind Gittins, Saket Priyadarshi, Tessa Parkes   +10 more
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Current attitudes toward drug checking services and a comparison of expected with actual drugs present in street drug samples collected from opioid users [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The opioid epidemic continues to be associated with high numbers of fatalities in the USA and other countries, driven mainly by the inclusion of potent synthetic opioids in street drugs.
James A. Swartz, Marya Lieberman, A. David Jimenez, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Heather D. Whitehead, Kathleen L. Hayes, Lisa Taylor, Elizabeth Prete   +7 more
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Drug checking services: barriers and facilitators to implementation by U.S. syringe services programs [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Syringe services programs (SSPs) provide evidence-based services to prevent the spread of disease and reduce overdose mortality among people who use drugs.
Jessica Smith, Sarah Margaret Philbrick, Christopher F. Akiba, Lynn D. Wenger, Sara Hairgrove, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin, Sheila V. Patel   +7 more
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Development and validation of a fentanyl quantification model for drug checking services [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Drug checking services are becoming increasingly popular. Despite the significant variability in fentanyl concentrations observed in the unregulated opioid supply, quantifying fentanyl concentrations using community drug checking technologies
Samuel Tobias, Sara M. Guzman, Jason E. Hein, Lianping Ti   +3 more
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Enhancing drug checking services for supply monitoring: perspectives on implementation in syringe service programs in the USA [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Shifts in the US drug supply, including the proliferation of synthetic opioids and emergence of xylazine, have contributed to the worsening toll of the overdose epidemic.
Kyle J. Moon, Heather D. Whitehead, Anne Trinh, Kathryn A. Hasenstab, Kathleen L. Hayes, Debra Stanley, Brittany Carter, Rick Barclay, Marya Lieberman, Saira Nawaz   +9 more
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Evaluating networked drug checking services in Toronto, Ontario: study protocol and rationale [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background The increasing incidence of fatal opioid overdose is a public health crisis in Canada. Given growing consensus that this crisis is related to the presence of highly potent opioid adulterants (e.g., fentanyl) in the unregulated drug supply ...
N. Maghsoudi, K. McDonald, C. Stefan, D. R. Beriault, K. Mason, L. Barnaby, J. Altenberg, R. D. MacDonald, J. Caldwell, R. Nisenbaum, P. Leece, T. M. Watson, K. W. Tupper, L. Kufner, A. I. Scheim, D. Werb, Drug Checking Services in Toronto Working Group   +16 more
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Impact of lab-based drug checking services on syringe service program engagement in Maryland, USA [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Purpose: The introduction of synthetic substances into the unregulated drug supply has driven a surge in overdose deaths, posing significant public health challenges in timely substance identification, engagement with people who use drugs (PWUD), and ...
Caitlin M. Berry, David Newton, Margaret Rybak, Gregory Malik Burnett, Marcela Najarro, Edward Sisco, Jasmine Lopes, Dennis Leber   +7 more
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