The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the misrepresentation of LSD at Portugal's Boom Festival 2014 and the prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe among LSD consumers attending a drug-checking service. METHODS: Two hundred forty-five drug samples expected to contain LSD were sub...
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| author | Martins, D. Barratt, Monica Pires, C. Carvalho, H. Ventura, M. Fornís, I. Valente, H. |
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| description | OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the misrepresentation of LSD at Portugal's Boom Festival 2014 and the prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe among LSD consumers attending a drug-checking service. METHODS: Two hundred forty-five drug samples expected to contain LSD were submitted to the drug-checking service for chemical analysis. One hundred ten post-test questionnaires were successfully matched with test results. RESULTS: About 67.3% of the alleged LSD samples tested contained only LSD; 0.8% contained LSD combined with adulterants; 24.1% did not contain LSD but did contain another psychoactive substance, including 11.4% that were 2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine derivatives and 9.8% that were N-benzyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine derivatives; and no psychoactive substance was detected in 7.8%. The majority of service users who received unexpected test results regarding their alleged LSD (74.2%) reported that they did not intend to consume the drug. Following dissemination of alerts on day 2, a larger than expected proportion of all tests conducted were for LSD, when comparing the 2014 festival to 2012, where no such alert was disseminated. CONCLUSIONS: Although these results support the provision of integrated drug-checking services in party settings, evidence of their utility and effectiveness would be improved through future research incorporating more robust measures of outcomes following provision of drug-checking results. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-548512017-09-13T15:50:47Z The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival Martins, D. Barratt, Monica Pires, C. Carvalho, H. Ventura, M. Fornís, I. Valente, H. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the misrepresentation of LSD at Portugal's Boom Festival 2014 and the prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe among LSD consumers attending a drug-checking service. METHODS: Two hundred forty-five drug samples expected to contain LSD were submitted to the drug-checking service for chemical analysis. One hundred ten post-test questionnaires were successfully matched with test results. RESULTS: About 67.3% of the alleged LSD samples tested contained only LSD; 0.8% contained LSD combined with adulterants; 24.1% did not contain LSD but did contain another psychoactive substance, including 11.4% that were 2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine derivatives and 9.8% that were N-benzyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine derivatives; and no psychoactive substance was detected in 7.8%. The majority of service users who received unexpected test results regarding their alleged LSD (74.2%) reported that they did not intend to consume the drug. Following dissemination of alerts on day 2, a larger than expected proportion of all tests conducted were for LSD, when comparing the 2014 festival to 2012, where no such alert was disseminated. CONCLUSIONS: Although these results support the provision of integrated drug-checking services in party settings, evidence of their utility and effectiveness would be improved through future research incorporating more robust measures of outcomes following provision of drug-checking results. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54851 10.1002/hup.2608 John Wiley & Sons restricted |
| spellingShingle | Martins, D. Barratt, Monica Pires, C. Carvalho, H. Ventura, M. Fornís, I. Valente, H. The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival |
| title | The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival |
| title_full | The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival |
| title_fullStr | The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival |
| title_full_unstemmed | The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival |
| title_short | The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival |
| title_sort | detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of dox and 25x-nbome at portugal's boom festival |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54851 |