Winstock, Adam R and Davies, Emma L and Ferris, Jason A and Maier, Larissa J and Barratt, Monica J (2022) Using the Global Drug Survey for harm reduction. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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The Global Drug Survey (GDS) is a detailed annual online survey of psychoactive substance use that first ran in 2011. The 10 GDS surveys to date have collected data from more than 900 000 respondents, containing information that can answer key and novel questions related to the epidemiology of psychoactive substance use as well as inform the development of pragmatic harm reduction resources that put people first. This chapter looks at the history of the GDS and the range of harm reduction tools that have been created using data from the survey, highlighting the importance of disseminating peer expertise to inform positive behaviour change. This includes several mobile health applications developed from GDS data, aiming to dismantle barriers to behaviour change by considering individual risk factors. For example, the Drugs Meter tool allows people to compare their last month’s use of cannabis, cocaine or MDMA to those of tens of thousands of other people, enabling people who use drugs to become involved in a dialogue about their use. This highlights the potential of using data collected from online surveys to develop practical online tools for promoting harm reduction among people who use drugs.
F Concepts in psychology > Attitude > Attitude toward substance use
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and rehabilitation > Health services, substance use research
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and rehabilitation > Harm reduction > Substance use harm reduction
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use > Harm reduction policy
N Communication, information and education > Information use and impact
R Research > Research and evaluation method
R Research > Type of research study > Empirical study > Survey
VA Geographic area > Europe
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