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    The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival

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    Martins, D.
    Barratt, Monica
    Pires, C.
    Carvalho, H.
    Ventura, M.
    Fornís, I.
    Valente, H.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Martins, D. and Barratt, M. and Pires, C. and Carvalho, H. and Ventura, M. and Fornís, I. and Valente, H. 2017. The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x-NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival. Human Psychopharmacology. 32 (3).
    Source Title
    Human Psychopharmacology
    DOI
    10.1002/hup.2608
    ISSN
    0885-6222
    School
    National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54851
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    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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