Tag: drug checking

    Just Months Into a Yearlong Pilot, New Zealand Legalizes Drug-Checking

    Festival-goers in New Zealand were taking what they thought was pure MDMA. But days ...

    The Mission to Save Lives by Deciphering Philly’s Volatile Drug Supply

    Conditions in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia, where I’ve reported for years, stand ...

    CDC Recommends Drug-Checking Services Amid Historic Overdose Deaths

    As the already-staggering death toll of the overdose crisis reaches historic heights, the United ...

    Despite Fentanyl’s Ubiquity, Test Strips Can Still Empower Drug Users

    As the presence of illicit fentanyl has reached near-ubiquity in many North American heroin ...

    Are More Clubbers Taking Ketamine Without Knowing It?

    It’s safe to say Joseph Palamar goes to a lot of raves. Since 2016, ...

    New Drugs, Bad Policies Leave Philly Harm Reduction Groping in the Dark

    The “Walmart of Heroin” is how the New York Times described Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood—in ...

    Watch: Fentanyl Safety Campaign Poses the “Coke Challenge”

    US-based harm reduction group DanceSafe and Canadian creative agency The Garden have partnered to ...

    Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails

    Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the ...