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标题：Drug checking: a potential solution to the opioid overdose epidemic?
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作者：Geoff Bardwell ; Thomas Kerr
期刊名称：Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
电子版ISSN：1747-597X
出版年度：2018
卷号：13
期号：1
页码：20
DOI：10.1186/s13011-018-0156-3
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：North America is experiencing an overdose epidemic driven in part by the proliferation of illicitly-manufactured fentanyl and related analogues. In response, communities are scaling up novel overdose prevention interventions. Included are drug checking technologies. Drug checking technologies aim to identify the contents of illicit drugs. These technologies vary considerably in terms of cost, accuracy, and usability, and while efforts are now underway to implement drug checking programs for people who inject drugs, there remains a lack of rigorous evaluation of their impacts. Given the ongoing overdose crisis and the urgent need for effective responses, research on drug checking should be prioritized. However, while such research should be supported, it should be completed before these technologies are widely implemented.
关键词：Drug checking technologies ; Opioid epidemic ; Drug use ; Overdose prevention