...Ines Kvaternik; Marko Verdenik; Matej Sande Purpose This study aims to examine the perspectives of employees involved in drug checking services ( DCS ) in Slovenia, focusing on sample collection points for illicit drugs and new psychoactive substances ( NPS ). As part of the national harm...

... in New Zealand ( NZ ) in 2021 aimed to address such harm by enabling licenced drug checking providers to directly analyse samples from consumers. This paper aims to detail the use of drug checking legislation for research purposes, and the licence aquisition process for the first licence of this kind...

... be contacted at: monica.barratt@rmit.edu.au 01 11 2023 14 02 2024 16 02 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Drug checking Drug market Drug adulteration Drug purity Illicit drug trade Harm reduction Darknet market...

...Nicolas Van der Linden; Raoul Pieter Joost Koning; Daan van der Gouwe; Mireia Ventura; Fiona Measham Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present some of the continued resistance and challenges faced by drug checking services (DCS) and review how the existing literature and the contributions...

..., this study aims to: describe the recreational drug scene associated with Ukrainian EDM culture; identify clusters of EDM participants who use PAS, based on their drug use patterns; and assess the uptake of drug checking and investigate associations between drug checking and subsequent drug-related behaviour...

... be contacted at: rvrolijk@trimbos.nl 27 01 2022 13 05 2022 05 08 2022 26 09 2022 27 09 2022 03 10 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Europe Harm reduction MDMA Drug checking Ecstasy tablets TEDI...

...Mauro Díaz Moreno; Nathalia Alarcón Ayala; Yarelix Estrada; Vannesa Morris; Julián Quintero Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results and context of the drug checking service (DCS) performed by the harm reduction project Échele Cabeza (EC) in Colombia. Design/methodology...

...Fiona Measham; Henry Simmons Purpose This study aims to assess service user characteristics, uptake and outcomes for drug checking services offered to over 250,000 English festival-goers in summer 2018 and to compare findings with earlier years, wider festival-goers and the general population...

...Helena Valente; Daniel Martins; Marta Pinto; José Luis Fernandes; Monica J. Barratt Purpose Recent studies have shown that people who attend electronic dance music events and use drug checking services (DCS) are a predominantly white male, highly educated middle-class population. However...

...Fiona Hutton Purpose This paper aims to explore the context and implications of the New Zealand Drug and Substance Drug Checking Acts 2020 and 2021. Design/methodology/approach This discussion provides a description of legislative changes about drug checking in the New Zealand context...

...Monica J. Barratt; Fiona Measham Purpose The recent influx of interest in and the changing status of drug checking has led us to reconsider some fundamental questions about drug checking. This commentary aims to define drug checking. It proceeds in three parts: terminology, definitions...

...Monica J. Barratt; Stephen J. Bright; Ash R. Blackwell Purpose Following deaths and hospitalisations in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, related to the unwitting consumption of a combination of 25C-NBOMe and 4-FA, a community-led unauthorised drug checking service was rapidly established...

...Bruce Wallace; Lea Gozdzialski; Abdelhakim Qbaich; Azam Shafiul; Piotr Burek; Abby Hutchison; Taylor Teal; Rebecca Louw; Collin Kielty; Derek Robinson; Belaid Moa; Margaret-Anne Storey; Chris Gill; Dennis Hore Purpose While there is increasing interest in implementing drug checking within overdose...

...Teemu Kaskela; Ronja Järvelin; Janne Nahkuri; Teemu Gunnar; Aino Kankaanpää; Anna Pelander; Miina Kajos Purpose Drug checking is a popular method to reduce risks of drug use. In many countries, including Finland, legislation restricts implementing drug checking. The aim of this study...