Current attitudes toward drug checking services and a comparison of expected with actual drugs present in street drug samples collected from opioid users

Original research
par
Swartz, James A. et al

Date de publication

2023

Géographie

USA

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Oui

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Oui

Évalué par des pairs

Yes

L’objectif

We assessed how valued drug checking services (DCS) would be for opioid street drug users given the ubiquity of fentanyl and related analogs in the drug supply, the information they would most value from drug checking, and compared expected versus actual constituent drugs in collected samples.

Constatations/points à retenir

Attitudes toward DCS indicated a general but not uniform receptiveness with a majority indicating interest in DCS though sizeable minorities believed DCS was “too much trouble” (25.2%) or there was “no point” in testing (35.4%). Participants were especially inaccurate identifying common cutting agents and potentiating drugs such as diphenhydramine in their samples (sensitivity = .17).

La conception ou méthodologie de recherche

Convenience sample of opioid street drug users (N = 118)

Mots clés

Drug checking
About PWUD
Illegal drugs