On this edition of Century: Check Your Drugs. One such intervention is
drug checking. Drug checking services are not new. The organization
DanceSafe for example has been around for decades, and for several
years there have been growing efforts to get that information out to
the public, sharing alerts about adulterants and new psychoactive
substances that are hitting the market. The European Union Drugs
Agency (EUDA) put together a panel recently to discuss drug checking
services. On today\'s show we hear presentations from that panel by Dr.
Mireia Ventura, Drug Checking Coordinator at Energy Control in
Barcelona, Spain, and Manager of the Trans-European Drug Information
Network; and Helena Valente. an Executive Board Member at Kosmicare in
Lisbon, Portugal.