Response to ‘Drug checking services increase the intention to use drugs in some (small) subgroups of music festival attendees’

Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Title

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volume

41

Issue

5

First Page

1256

Last Page

1257

PubMed ID

35263476

Publisher

Wiley

School

School of Arts and Humanities / School of Medical and Health Sciences

Comments

Calle, P. (2022). Drug checking services increase the intention to use drugs in some (small) subgroups of music festival attendees. Drug and alcohol review, 41(5), 1256-1257. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13461

Abstract

We agree with Calle's [1] analysis that onsite pill testing could lead to an increase in the use of some drugs among a small subgroup of the population and that further research should be conducted to better understand the impacts of pill testing on people's behaviour. However, we do not believe that the data we published [2] supports Calle's assertion that onsite pill testing has a negative impact on this hypothetical subgroup of the population.

DOI

10.1111/dar.13461

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