A poster in the Downtown Eastside headquarters of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users commemorates people who died of toxic drug poisoning. Drug checking can save lives, researchers say. And it ...

The program, colloquially known as pill testing, will run one day a week for about four months at the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) in Kings Cross, and will take samples from 100 ...

Berlin's first drug-checking service launched last year, and demand is high. Now the data is being shared with the KnowDrugs app, which informs users about the latest drug-checking results in Germany ...

The first drug-checking program of its kind will begin in NSW on Monday, which allows drug users to test their substances. The program, colloquially known as pill testing, will run one day a week for ...

Urgent public health alerts about the presence of deadly substances in illicit drugs will be sent out within hours of a sample being tested at Queensland's first fixed-site drug checking service. The ...

A new study analyses how other countries' drug checking services use and share data, as a way of helping Australia's policymakers decide what to do with ours. The researchers also spoke with people ...

Ontario’s plan to shut down six supervised consumption sites in Toronto may significantly impact one local organization’s ability to verify and analyze the city’s unregulated drug supply. Toronto’s ...

Bruce Wallace received funding from Health Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Vancouver Foundation, and the Island Health ...

A dedicated licensing scheme for drug checking at festivals should be established before the next summer festival season, including the power to grant licences to local authorities, the report on ...

The UK’s first regular drug-checking service has launched in Bristol today (January 27) thanks to harm-reduction charity The Loop. The service, which will run on the last Saturday of every month, has ...