We lost a brilliant soul this weekend in North Carolina. Louise was a strong voice in advocating for the dignity of people who use drugs. 💔| Opioid Data Lab
The sedative is considered remarkably safe in clinical settings, but on the street – at unknown doses mixed with fentanyl and xylazine – medetomidine tells a different story.| Opioid Data Lab
drug checking, harm reduction, overdose prevention, NarxCare, fentanyl analogs, HALT Fentanyl Act, nitazenes, public health surveillance, Narcan, Overdose Chain of Survival, commercial determinants of health, black box algorithms, health tech accountability| Opioid Data Lab
Generations that grew up with D.A.R.E. & "Just Say No" have the highest drug overdose deaths.| Opioid Data Lab
drug checking service updates, overdose rates decline, harm reduction job postings and opportunities, naloxone and fentanyl test strips studies.| Opioid Data Lab
ACDC 2025 Virtual Summit is quickly approaching!| Opioid Data Lab
What to expect from 2024 CDC overdose mortality data. AI prompt and talking points for advocacy| Opioid Data Lab
April newsletter from the UNC Street Drug Analysis Lab. UNC Watchlist, newly detected drugs. Drug checking data for research. Job postings, drug checking training, Drug policy, archive| Opioid Data Lab
March newsletter from the UNC Street Drug Analysis Lab. New science on xylazine. Field work on naloxone. Newly detected drugs. NC Summit on Reducing Overdose.| Opioid Data Lab
Independent lab accuracy verification for MX908, TruNarc, Amplifi ID Spectra Plasmonics handheld devices.| Opioid Data Lab
💡 This page goes over information that is intended to help programs discern whether an FTIR machine would be a feasible option for their organization. It goes over various considerations to be taken into account when considering starting an on-the-ground drug checking program If you have or are thinking about| Opioid Data Lab
drug checking, LA wildfires, OD phenotypes| Opioid Data Lab
With our 10,000th sample completed in January, our website’s hosting capability maxxed out. 😳 Starting last summer, our awesome software developer David has been working on a new results page that is purpose-built. We aren’t updating it on the regular yet but here's| Opioid Data Lab
Overdoses seem to have dropped abruptly, and we are seek explanations. Surprisingly, OD deaths declined gradually starting in 2022-3. The revised timeline offers policy implications.| Opioid Data Lab
Erin Tracy & Jalice Manso If we continue our journey from the sample inlet downward (see last month's post diving into the injection port), the next part of the instrument is the gold seal. This little disk is tiny, but important. Big picture orientation – once the drug| Opioid Data Lab
L.A. County AADAP Health Intervention Program (Inglewood) Contact: treynolds@aadapinc.org aadapinc.org/ways-to-give/ *Highly impacted with active response --- Being Alive Harm Reduction Program givebutter.com/BA_Annual_Fund --- Bienestar Harm Reduction Center (East L.A., Long Beach and Pomona)| Opioid Data Lab
Behind the Scenes: Maintaining Precision in Drug Sample Analysis Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you send a drug sample to our lab? Let's pull back the curtain and talk about something that might sound tiny but is actually a big deal: injection port maintenance. Your Sample's Grand| Opioid Data Lab
Street Drug Analysis Lab @ UNC| Opioid Data Lab
📣This blog post was covered by National Public Radio (NPR) on September 18, 2024. By: Nabarun Dasgupta, Colin Miller, Adams Sibley A good analogy is inflation: It's hard to trust official numbers unless we feel it in our wallets. Or in this case, our hearts. Are we going to fewer| Opioid Data Lab
