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    Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia

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    Authors
    Butterfield, R.
    Barratt, Monica
    Ezard, N.
    Day, R.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Butterfield, R. and Barratt, M. and Ezard, N. and Day, R. 2016. Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia. 204 (4): pp. 144-145.
    Source Title
    Medical Journal of Australia
    DOI
    10.5694/mja15.01058
    ISSN
    1326-5377
    School
    National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
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    © Copyright 2016. The Medical Journal of Australia - reproduced with permission

    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29714
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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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