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24 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read

#DrugChecking for Novel Insights into the Unregulated Drug Supply 1/5 doi.org/10.1093/aje/kw…

Tobias et al. (Am J Epidemiol. XXXX;XXX(XX):XXXX-XXXX) present a novel analysis of time trends in fentanyl concentrations in the unregulated drug supply in British Columbia, Canada. The pre-existing knowledge about unregulated drugs had pre... 2/5

viously come from law enforcement seizures and post-mortem toxicology. As both of these data sources are subject to selection bias, large scale #drugchecking programs are poised to be a crucial component of the public health response to the... 3/5

unrelenting increase in #overdose in North America. As programs expand, we offer two guiding principles. First, the primary purpose of these programs is to deliver timely results to people who use drugs to mitigate health risks. Second, inn... 4/5

Date: September 2021 Authors: Nabarun Dasgupta, Mary C Figgatt 5/5

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