2019 Vancouver study found 30% of participants made safer choices after using take-home test.
Jane Skrypnek – Jun. 8, 2022 – A Vancouver pilot program shows take-home fentanyl tests can encourage some people to use less and use in a safer setting. The results were released this month in the International Journal of Drug Policy, but the program itself ran back in the spring of 2019.
A collaboration between Vancouver Coastal, Interior and First Nations health authorities, the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) and the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), the program distributed 1,680 take-home tests to 218 participants from 10 drug-checking services in Metro Vancouver.
