Drug checking is increasingly being explored outside of festivals and events to be an
ongoing service within communities, frequently integrated within responses to illicit drug …

Drug-checking services (DCS) provide people who use drugs (PWUD) the opportunity to
have their substances tested before consumption. Though some suggest they may have …

Objectives Unpredictable fluctuations in the illicit drug market increase overdose risk. Drug
checking, or the use of technology to provide insight into the contents of illicit drug products …

Abstract Introduction and Aims Drug checking is a harm reduction intervention increasingly
used in the context of the opioid overdose epidemic. The aim of the study was to determine …

Handheld Raman spectroscopy is an emerging technique for rapid on‐site detection of
drugs of abuse. Most devices are developed for on‐scene operation with a user interface …

This current review focuses on contributions to amphetamine-type substances (ATS)
analysis. This type of synthetic illicit drugs has been increasingly present worldwide …

Background In recent years there has been growing media attention on microdosing
psychedelics (eg, LSD, psilocybin). This refers to people routinely taking small doses of …

Drug checking research and services largely focus on opioid consumers and nightclub and
dance festival attendees, but more focus may be needed on the general population. Drug …

Tobias 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 …

Amphetamine (AMP) is posing critical issues in our society being one of the most
encountered drugs-of-abuse in the current illicit market. The continuous drug production in …