Get Your Drugs Tested

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Get Your Drugs Tested is a free public drug checking service located in Vancouver, Canada. [1] It was founded by Dana Larsen in May 2019, accepting samples in person at their storefront and by mail from all across Canada. Dana Larsen said: "I want to help save lives, I want people to be informed and I wish they could buy clean, pre-tested drugs" since "the whole war on drug users is a genocide of the poor." [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Get Your Drugs Tested receives no public funding, and is entirely supported by The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary. [6] [7] [8]

They use FTIR Spectrometers and fentanyl test strips to offer free analysis of any drug or substance at their storefront or by mail. [9] [10]

In January 2021 they announced they had analyzed over 10,000 samples. [11] [12] In June 2021 they announced they had analyzed 15,000 samples. [13] In March 2022 they announced they had analyzed 25,000 samples. [14] In July 2022 they announced they had analyzed 30,000 samples. [15] By October 2023, the service had analyzed over 50,000 samples. [16]

All of their drug analysis results are posted to their website in a searchable database. [17]

The service has received extensive media coverage. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]

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References

  1. ↑ "Get Your Drugs Tested".
  2. ↑ "Canadians can now mail their narcotics to Vancouver to find out whether or not they will kill them". Nationalpost.
  3. ↑ "Dana Larsen: Activist offers drug testing by mail". May 2019.
  4. ↑ "East Hastings dispensary launches onsite Drug Analysis Service". 18 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "A free Canada-wide mail-in drug testing service has been set up in Vancouver | Grow".
  6. ↑ "How It Works".
  7. ↑ "The Dispensary | The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary".
  8. ↑ "Local Vancouver dispensary initiative values safety over substance". Vancouver is Awesome. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  9. ↑ "New Harm Reduction Service Encourages Dealers to Send Drugs in Mail for Testing".
  10. ↑ "Drug testing campaign raising awareness about the dangers of contaminated drugs in Halifax - Halifax | Globalnews.ca".
  11. ↑ "Dana Larsen: 10,000 street drug samples analyzed in Vancouver". 19 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "Over 10,000 illicit drugs have been tested by a Vancouver harm reduction service".
  13. ↑ "15,000 Tests!". 19 June 2021.
  14. ↑ "25,000 TEST MILESTONE! PLUS NEW AND IMPROVED SEARCH ENGINE". Get Your Drugs Tested. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  15. ↑ "30000 DRUGS CHECKED!". Get Your Drugs Tested. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  16. ↑ "How Ramping Up Drug Testing Could Save Lives". MSN.com. 2023-10-07. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  17. ↑ "Test Results Archive".
  18. ↑ "Deadly drug cocktail a growing concern in B.C.'s overdose crisis". MSN .
  19. ↑ "Government-sanctioned safe supply not enough to get some off fentanyl-laced street drugs | CBC News".
  20. ↑ "Advocate calls for drug testing site after 'unknown substance' leads to overdose deaths | CBC News".
  21. ↑ "Vancouver drug tester says nearly half of all heroin that comes in contains fentanyl - BC | Globalnews.ca".
  22. ↑ "New mail-in drug testing service opens in Canada". 12 June 2019.
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