The detection and prevention of unintentional consumption of DOx and 25x‐NBOMe at Portugal's Boom Festival
Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental May 1, 2017 Daniel Martins, Monica J Barratt, Cristiana Vale Pires et al. 76 citations
At the 2014 Boom Festival in Portugal, a drug-checking service analyzed 245 samples that users believed to be LSD. Only 67.3% actually contained LSD alone; 24.1% contained another psychoactive substance instead, including 11.4% that were DOx derivatives and 9.8% that were 25x-NBOMe derivatives. Among users who received unexpected results, 74.2% said they did not intend to consume the drug they actually had. After alerts were disseminated on the second day, a larger proportion of all tests conducted were for LSD compared to the 2012 festival, where no such alert was issued. The authors suggest these findings support integrated drug-checking services in party settings.