Comment on pill testing review

Tremonti, Chris; Volovets, Anastasia; Jamshidi, Nazila; Buckley, Nicholas A; Dawson, Andrew; Conigrave, Kate; Haber, Paul

doi:10.1111/imj.15115

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“…Drug checking is a health intervention which allows for a shift away from a zero tolerance approach to drugs, towards a model which considers drug use as a health and human rights issue (Tremonti et al , 2020) [10]. This is because it requires collaboration with a number of stakeholders, including law enforcement, whose discretion is still often required for DCS to operate.…”

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Challenges, policy and politics in drug checking: reflections of the TEDItorial team

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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 to the special issue address them, with a view to making recommendations. Design/methodology/approach The existing literature and the contributions to the special issue are reviewed. Findings Drug checking cannot be equated with quality control. With the appropriate equipment and chemistry staff, DCS can provide quantitative analysis and reliable results. When the product does not match expectations, service users discard the tested substance of concern. To more easily compare the results of different studies and better evaluate drug checking, standardisation of measures is desirable. Uptake of drug checking, notably in festivals, is low and depends in part on the capacity of DCS. Drug checking has added value in monitoring drug markets and is complementary with chemical (forensic) analysis. Originality/value This paper interrogates in a relatively comprehensive way the continued resistance to drug checking in light of theoretical and empirical research to derive recommendations that are specific to drug checking and that are addressed to health professionals, researchers and also to policymakers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%