#drug checking

Fortunately in Aotearoa, we are lucky enough to have free, legal, and confidential drug checking services. Drug checking is a service where you can take your drugs for them to be checked by a professional using an FTIR spectrometer, reagents, and fentanyl, nitazene and benzodiazepine test strips. These tools can help you find out what's in your drugs. You can also have a conversation with the drug checker about how you can be safer with your drug use.

Drug checking is unfortunately, just a band-aid solution, drug harm will always be high as long as drugs are illegal and unregulated. I'm proud to be a part of this much needed band-aid.

You can find the times, dates, and locations of all drug checking clinics in Aotearoa/New Zealand at thelevel.org.nz/drug-checking-clinics

Stay safe, have fun, and remember

Drug Checking Technology Challenge

Health Canada is putting their money where their mouth is, asking for help with a drug checking technology challenge. Most of us are aware of the opioid crisis here in Canada and around the world. For more information, please check out the detailed article in the link above. It describes the challenge to discover or modify the technology involved in detecting lethal, potent drugs like Fentanyl as…