The US Gets Its First Free, Rapid Drug-Checking Mail Program

[dreamer042]

It's just a small pilot program right now, but hopefully this will catch on and they can achieve the goal of scaling it up to a national resource.

The US Gets Its First Free, Rapid Drug-Checking Mail Program

For the past month or two, I’ve been using the kits to submit samples from NYC. They're now rolling out to syringe programs across the US.

filtermag.org

 

[PanaeolusSequence]

Awesome, Thanks.

 

[birdsarenotreal]

super cool! Did anyone find a link to order the kits? I tried searching around, not sure if I'm missing it

 

[hedge]

super cool! Did anyone find a link to order the kits? I tried searching around, not sure if I'm missing it

"In early March, the team received grant funding from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) to collaborate with SSP. The funding allows them to begin the first state-wide public health assessment of street supply, for which they’ll work with seven programs across North Carolina. But it also means they can begin sending kits to SSP in other states."

"Right now the team’s capacity is around 2,000 kits per year, so they’re currently only supplying them to SSP."

It seems like the program is in its infancy, and not available to the general public yet, rather at 'syringe service program' sites.