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]
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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edit- ^ "Get Your Drugs Tested".
- ^ "Canadians can now mail their narcotics to Vancouver to find out whether or not they will kill them". Nationalpost.
- ^ "Dana Larsen: Activist offers drug testing by mail". May 2019.
- ^ "East Hastings dispensary launches onsite Drug Analysis Service". 18 June 2019.
- ^ "A free Canada-wide mail-in drug testing service has been set up in Vancouver | Grow".
- ^ "How It Works".
- ^ "The Dispensary | The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary".
- ^ "Local Vancouver dispensary initiative values safety over substance". Vancouver is Awesome. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "New Harm Reduction Service Encourages Dealers to Send Drugs in Mail for Testing". 22 May 2019.
- ^ "Drug testing campaign raising awareness about the dangers of contaminated drugs in Halifax - Halifax | Globalnews.ca".
- ^ "Dana Larsen: 10,000 street drug samples analyzed in Vancouver". 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Over 10,000 illicit drugs have been tested by a Vancouver harm reduction service". 27 January 2021.
- ^ "15,000 Tests!". 19 June 2021.
- ^ "25,000 TEST MILESTONE! PLUS NEW AND IMPROVED SEARCH ENGINE". Get Your Drugs Tested. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "30000 DRUGS CHECKED!". Get Your Drugs Tested. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "How Ramping Up Drug Testing Could Save Lives". MSN.com. 2023-10-07. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Test Results Archive".
- ^ "Deadly drug cocktail a growing concern in B.C.'s overdose crisis". MSN.
- ^ "Government-sanctioned safe supply not enough to get some off fentanyl-laced street drugs | CBC News".
- ^ "Advocate calls for drug testing site after 'unknown substance' leads to overdose deaths | CBC News".
- ^ "Vancouver drug tester says nearly half of all heroin that comes in contains fentanyl - BC | Globalnews.ca".
- ^ "New mail-in drug testing service opens in Canada". 12 June 2019.
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