This resource is intended for harm reduction advocates, administrators, program directors, and anyone who wants to start building a point-of-care and community-based drug checking service using an infrared spectrometer. This workbook will walk through the steps required to start a drug checking service: from conceptualizing the program, incorporating community feedback, purchasing equipment, and hiring staff, through the implementation of the service and continuing education.
Language: English
Remedy Alliance for the People – Drug Checking Implementation Workbook
DrugChecki.ng Comprehensive Drug Checking Resource Database
This independently run website houses a huge collection of reliable drug checking resources
Forensic Technology Center of Excellence – An Introduction to Drug Checking and Its Role in Harm Reduction
Provides an overview of harm reduction services and what value they provide to PWUD
Describes modes of drug checking within harm reduction settings, and offers observations and lessons learned from emerging drug checking needs
Drug checking services for people who use drugs: a systematic review
Drug checking services provide people who use drugs with chemical analysis results of their drug samples while simultaneously monitoring the unregulated drug market. We sought to identify and synthesize literature on the following domains: (a) the influence of drug checking services on the behaviour of people who use drugs; (b) monitoring of drug markets by drug checking services; and (c) outcomes related to models of drug checking services.
Brave YouTube Page
Several videos explaining the Brave overdose detection products, their community app, and clips from their annual Tech and Harm Reduction Symposium
XBrave YouTube Page
Q&A: SHNS Talks With SafeSpot’s Stephen Murray
SafeSpot is “the only truly government-funded overdose hotline in the U.S.,” Murray said, and fields calls not just from Massachusetts, but across the nation and Canada. As Massachusetts struggles with waves of opioid-related overdose deaths, Murray and SafeSpot are attempting to lower the death rate by providing support for people using drugs, based on the understanding that using drugs alone is the biggest risk factor for fatal overdoses.
Evaluating the Impact of Brave Technology Co-op’s Novel Drug Overdose Detection and Response Devices in North America: a Retrospective Study
Assess the preliminary impact of Brave Technology Co-op’s overdose detection devices that have been implemented in housing, medical, social service facilities, and several private settings in North America. Data analyzed provided insights on the number of overdoses detected and reversed (averted overdose deaths) using Brave Sensors and Buttons, along with other programmatic and session-specific indicators. Brave’s devices hold promise for increasing rates of overdose detection and preventing overdose deaths.
