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Get Your Drugs Tested is a free public drug checking service located in Vancouver, Canada. It was founded by Dana Larsen in May 2019, accepting samples in person at their storefront and by mail from all across Canada. Dana Larsen said: "I want to help save lives, I want people to be informed and I wish they could buy clean, pre-tested drugs" since "the whole war on drug users is a genocide of the poor."

Get Your Drugs Tested receives no public funding, and is entirely supported by The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary.

They use FTIR Spectrometers in conjunction with fentanyl, Lysergamides and Benzodiazepine test strips to offer free analysis of any drug or substance at their storefront or by mail.

In January 2021 they announced they had analyzed over 10,000 samples. In June 2021 they announced they had analyzed 15,000 samples. In March 2022 they announced they had analyzed 25,000 samples. In July 2022 they announced they had analyzed 30,000 samples. By October 2023, the service had analyzed over 50,000 samples.

All of their drug analysis results are posted to their website in a searchable database.

The service has received extensive media coverage.

See also

• Counterfeit drug
• Drug education
• Drug test
• Harm reduction
• Reagent testing

External links

• Get Your Drugs Tested website

References

1. "Get Your Drugs Tested".
2. "Canadians can now mail their narcotics to Vancouver to find out whether or not they will kill them". Nationalpost.
3. "Dana Larsen: Activist offers drug testing by mail". May 2019.
4. "East Hastings dispensary launches onsite Drug Analysis Service". 18 June 2019.
5. "A free Canada-wide mail-in drug testing service has been set up in Vancouver | Grow".
6. "How It Works".
7. "The Dispensary | The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary".
8. "Local Vancouver dispensary initiative values safety over substance". Vancouver is Awesome. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
9. "How can I get my drugs tested?". 19 November 2024.
10. "New Harm Reduction Service Encourages Dealers to Send Drugs in Mail for Testing". 22 May 2019.
11. "Drug testing campaign raising awareness about the dangers of contaminated drugs in Halifax - Halifax | Globalnews.ca".
12. "Dana Larsen: 10,000 street drug samples analyzed in Vancouver". 19 January 2021.
13. "Over 10,000 illicit drugs have been tested by a Vancouver harm reduction service". 27 January 2021.
14. "15,000 Tests!". 19 June 2021.
15. "25,000 TEST MILESTONE! PLUS NEW AND IMPROVED SEARCH ENGINE". Get Your Drugs Tested. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
16. "30000 DRUGS CHECKED!". Get Your Drugs Tested. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
17. "How Ramping Up Drug Testing Could Save Lives". MSN.com. 2023-10-07. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
18. "Test Results Archive".
19. "Deadly drug cocktail a growing concern in B.C.'s overdose crisis". MSN.
20. "Government-sanctioned safe supply not enough to get some off fentanyl-laced street drugs | CBC News".
21. "Advocate calls for drug testing site after 'unknown substance' leads to overdose deaths | CBC News".
22. "Vancouver drug tester says nearly half of all heroin that comes in contains fentanyl - BC | Globalnews.ca".
23. "New mail-in drug testing service opens in Canada". 12 June 2019.

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