Knill, Alison and Tobias, Samuel and Matthews, Jennifer and Ti, Lianping (2022) A report on British Columbia’s unregulated drug supply: drug checking trends across British Columbia January to December 2021. Vancouver: British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.
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The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the substances that were submitted to drug checking in sites across British Columbia, as well as highlight any trends in the unregulated drug supply in 2021. The data is presented both by health authority regions, and by drug category, to provide an in-depth look at how the unregulated drug supply varies between region, and how it changed across the year. The data presented was collected by technicians at community sites where drug checking is available, using benzodiazepine and fentanyl immunoassay test strips and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Samples were grouped into the following categories: opioids, stimulants, depressants, psychedelics, other, polysubstance, and unknown.
HA Screening, identification, and diagnostic method > Physical / medical screening, assessment and diagnostic method
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Identification and screening > Identification and screening for substance use
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Identification and screening > Identification and screening for substance use > Drug checking / testing service
VA Geographic area > Canada
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