Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia
As has been reported previously in the Journal, 1 novel psychoactive stimulant drugs are now increasingly prevalent in patients presenting to hospital emergency departments. A further cluster of 11 patients showing confusing hallmarks of sympathomimetic poisoning but no identifiable substance presen...
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Australasian Medical Publishing
2016
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| author | Butterfield, R. Barratt, Monica Ezard, N. Day, R. |
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| description | As has been reported previously in the Journal, 1 novel psychoactive stimulant drugs are now increasingly prevalent in patients presenting to hospital emergency departments. A further cluster of 11 patients showing confusing hallmarks of sympathomimetic poisoning but no identifiable substance presented to St Vincent ’ s Hospital in Sydney over a public holiday weekend in April 2015. Also, the start to the 2015 e 2016 summer festival season has included multiple deaths and hospitalisations following drug use at festivals, leading to calls for novel actions to protect public health. 2 Here, we take the opportunity to describe a method of harm minimisation that has been deployed in Europe and could potentially be deployed locally to tackle this problem. As has been reported previously in the Journal, 1 novel psychoactive stimulant drugs are now increasingly prevalent in patients presenting to hospital emergency departments. A further cluster of 11 patients showing confusing hallmarks of sympathomimetic poisoning but no identifiable substance presented to St Vincent ’ s Hospital in Sydney over a public holiday weekend in April 2015. Also, the start to the 2015 e 2016 summer festival season has included multiple deaths and hospitalisations following drug use at festivals, leading to calls for novel actions to protect public health. 2 Here, we take the opportunity to describe a method of harm minimisation that has been deployed in Europe and could potentially be deployed locally to tackle this problem. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-297142017-09-13T15:25:59Z Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia Butterfield, R. Barratt, Monica Ezard, N. Day, R. As has been reported previously in the Journal, 1 novel psychoactive stimulant drugs are now increasingly prevalent in patients presenting to hospital emergency departments. A further cluster of 11 patients showing confusing hallmarks of sympathomimetic poisoning but no identifiable substance presented to St Vincent ’ s Hospital in Sydney over a public holiday weekend in April 2015. Also, the start to the 2015 e 2016 summer festival season has included multiple deaths and hospitalisations following drug use at festivals, leading to calls for novel actions to protect public health. 2 Here, we take the opportunity to describe a method of harm minimisation that has been deployed in Europe and could potentially be deployed locally to tackle this problem. As has been reported previously in the Journal, 1 novel psychoactive stimulant drugs are now increasingly prevalent in patients presenting to hospital emergency departments. A further cluster of 11 patients showing confusing hallmarks of sympathomimetic poisoning but no identifiable substance presented to St Vincent ’ s Hospital in Sydney over a public holiday weekend in April 2015. Also, the start to the 2015 e 2016 summer festival season has included multiple deaths and hospitalisations following drug use at festivals, leading to calls for novel actions to protect public health. 2 Here, we take the opportunity to describe a method of harm minimisation that has been deployed in Europe and could potentially be deployed locally to tackle this problem. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29714 10.5694/mja15.01058 Australasian Medical Publishing fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Butterfield, R. Barratt, Monica Ezard, N. Day, R. Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia |
| title | Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia |
| title_full | Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia |
| title_fullStr | Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia |
| title_short | Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia |
| title_sort | drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29714 |