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Social reintegration of methadone maintenance patients in Morocco: barriers and opportunities
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2026) 27 (1): 16–26.
Published: 26 January 2026
... 10 2025 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Drug use Harm reduction Morocco Social reintegration Methadone maintenance program Right to adequate housing HIV transmission concerns, with prevalence of over 10...
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Samoan adult males’ thoughts and perspectives on factors that support responsible alcohol use and abstinence
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2025) 26 (4): 168–180.
Published: 04 September 2025
.... Corresponding author Barbara Lynn Staniforth [email protected] 28 03 2025 28 07 2025 08 08 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Alcohol Samoan men Harm reduction Problem drinking Culture...
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Pharmacology 101: why the effects of coca are different to cocaine
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2025) 26 (2): 51–56.
Published: 17 April 2025
... , La Paz . WHO (1952), “ Technical Report Series 57 ”, (March 1952) section 6.2, page 10 . As new products emerge and new contexts become established for their consumption, it is possible to envisage the need to develop harm-reduction programmes that address the specifics of oral...
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Harm reduction design: doing health and safety differently
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2025) 26 (1): 16–28.
Published: 25 December 2024
...Nancy D. Campbell Purpose This paper aims to document a novel course titled Harm Reduction Design Studio. The course introduced the harm reduction problem space to design students for designing objects, social worlds, infrastructures and ecologies that shape human and nonhuman social interactions...
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How accurate are drug cryptomarket listings by content, weight, purity and repeat purchase?
Available to PurchaseMonica J. Barratt, Ross Coomber, Michala Kowalski, Judith Aldridge, Rasmus Munksgaard, Jason Ferris, Aili Malm, James Martin, David Décary-Hétu
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2024) 25 (1): 6–18.
Published: 21 March 2024
... 02 2024 16 02 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Drug checking Drug market Drug adulteration Drug purity Illicit drug trade Harm reduction Darknet market Cryptomarket Unregulated supply Information...
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An overview of legal and policy barriers to opioid analgesics access and opioid agonist therapy in Morocco
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2023) 24 (4): 252–258.
Published: 13 October 2023
... use and control in Morocco, to highlight policy reforms, and to analyse the barriers to access to opioids. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Morocco Harm reduction Palliative care Access to controlled medicines Opioid agonist...
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Challenges, policy and politics in drug checking: reflections of the TEDItorial team
Available to PurchaseNicolas Van der Linden, Raoul Pieter Joost Koning, Daan van der Gouwe, Mireia Ventura, Fiona Measham
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 289–302.
Published: 29 November 2022
.... However, this does not prevent them from fulfilling their monitoring and harm reduction missions (Barratt et al., 2022 ; Díaz Moreno et al., 2022). Besides, as indicated above, lack of reliability is not inherent to drug checking. To allow drug checking to develop its full potential...
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Psychoactive substance use and drug checking practices among participants at electronic dance music events in Ukraine
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 244–257.
Published: 24 November 2022
... clusters of PAS users among the EDM festival attendees in Ukraine. Originality/value This study will inform the development of harm reduction interventions tailored to various subgroups of recreational PAS users taking into account gender-specific patterns of use suggested by the authors’ cluster...
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Size matters: comparing the MDMA content and weight of ecstasy tablets submitted to European drug checking services in 2012–2021
Available to PurchaseRuben Quirinus Vrolijk, Fiona Measham, Adrià Quesada, Anton Luf, Dominique Schori, Sarah Radley, Dean Acreman, Josie Smith, Marko Verdenik, Daniel Martins, Mar Cunha, Carlos J. Paulos, Ilaria Fineschi Piccinin, Enrico Gerace, Alexandra Karden, Raoul Pieter Joost Koning, Laura Alexandra Smit-Rigter, Mireia Ventura
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 207–219.
Published: 24 November 2022
... that while tablet weight correlates perfectly with MDMA content on a yearly basis, wide variations in the MDMA mass fraction make such relations irrelevant for determining the MDMA content of individual tablets. Research limitations/implications These results provide new opportunities for harm reduction...
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Échele Cabeza as a harm reduction project and activist movement in Colombia
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 263–276.
Published: 24 November 2022
...Mauro Díaz Moreno; Nathalia Alarcón Ayala; Yarelix Estrada; Vannesa Morris; Julián Quintero Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results and context of the drug checking service (DCS) performed by the harm reduction project Échele Cabeza (EC) in Colombia. Design/methodology...
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Who uses drug checking services? Assessing uptake and outcomes at English festivals in 2018
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 188–199.
Published: 07 November 2022
... populations. A sweep conducted five years ago estimated there to be over 30 DCS around the world (Barratt et al., 2018), including the longest running in The Netherlands and amongst the most recent in the UK. DCS often emerged as grassroots services delivered by harm reduction non governmental...
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Drug use patterns, harm reduction strategies and use of drug checking services in boom festival patrons
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 232–243.
Published: 03 November 2022
... implications Our data suggest that DCS might not be easily accessible to all people who use drugs, reaching almost exclusively highly educated people that already apply several harm reduction strategies. Actions should be taken to promote service accessibility. Originality/value To the best of the authors...
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Drug checking in New Zealand: the 2020 and 2021 drug and substance checking legislation acts
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 200–206.
Published: 11 October 2022
..., alongside a critical analysis of the interlinked factors surrounding these important pieces of legislation. Findings The legalisation of drug checking is an important harm reduction development in the New Zealand context, although overregulation of licensing requirements should be avoided, as well...
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What is drug checking, anyway?
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 176–187.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and programmes that are excluded from the definition of drug checking that still have value for harm reduction. Design/methodology/approach To inform the commentary, an informal review of pertinent publications on the topic was conducted to extract relevant definitions and terminology. Findings Drug...
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Community-led guerrilla drug checking in response to deaths from adulterated MDMA in Victoria, Australia
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 258–262.
Published: 17 August 2022
... Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Drug checking Festivals MDMA NBOMe Peer interventions Harm reduction 2C-X = 2C-series substances as well as the chemically related NBOMe series; 25C-NBOMe = 4-chloro-2,5-dimethoxy-N-(2...
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Bruce Wallace, Lea Gozdzialski, Abdelhakim Qbaich, Azam Shafiul, Piotr Burek, Abby Hutchison, Taylor Teal, Rebecca Louw, Collin Kielty, Derek Robinson, Belaid Moa, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chris Gill, Dennis Hore
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 220–231.
Published: 08 July 2022
... at multiple sites while still providing point-of-care results with local harm reduction engagement and access to confirmatory testing online and in localized reporting. It also reduces the need for training in the technical components of drug checking (e.g. interpreting spectra) for harm reduction workers...
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Teemu Kaskela, Ronja Järvelin, Janne Nahkuri, Teemu Gunnar, Aino Kankaanpää, Anna Pelander, Miina Kajos
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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy (2022) 23 (3): 277–288.
Published: 10 June 2022
... tested in a festival setting were not what they were supposed to be (Measham, 2019). Harm reduction Illicit drugs Drug checking Drug market Drug monitoring Drug residue analysis © Teemu Kaskela, Ronja Järvelin, Janne Nahkuri, Teemu Gunnar, Aino Kankaanpää, Anna Pelander and Miina Kajos...
