Current attitudes toward drug checking services and a comparison of expected with actual drugs present in street drug samples collected from opioid users

• Main Authors: James A. Swartz (Author), Marya Lieberman (Author), A. David Jimenez (Author), Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti (Author), Heather D. Whitehead (Author), Kathleen L. Hayes (Author), Lisa Taylor (Author), Elizabeth Prete (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The opioid epidemic continues to be associated with high numbers of fatalities in the USA and other countries, driven mainly by the inclusion of potent synthetic opioids in street drugs. Drug checking by means of various technologies is being increasingly implemented as a harm re...