GUIDES
Step-by-step guides to checking what is actually in a sample. Which reagent suits which substance, how to read a color change, and where reagents stop and purity testing begins.
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Step-by-step guides to checking what is actually in a sample. Which reagent suits which substance, how to read a color change, and where reagents stop and purity testing begins.
Does the bleach test work on meth or cocaine? This article has been translated to English. The bleach test shows you how fast a powder sinks through household…
1,955 lab-tested pills. Typically 164 mg of MDMA, 527 over 200 mg, and the same logo spanning a factor of two.
A 0.1 g pocket scale cannot see a 10 mg difference. For anything active in single milligrams, the scale is the harm reduction step.
Two products, one name. A reagent checks what a substance is before you take it. A urine test looks for metabolites after.
Thin layer chromatography separates a sample into every compound in it, and estimates how much. What a reagent cannot do.
Anabolic steroids are the one market with no drug checking service behind it. What a home test finds, and what it misses.
101 Galenika, Bensedin, Ksalol and Elipam pills tested in labs. 79 were the benzodiazepine on the blister. One in five was not.
Once it meant somebody’s guess. Now it means a lab result. 9,374 tested samples from 27 European drug checking services.
Drug checking is not only about avoiding a bad batch. The evidence suggests the conversation around the test changes behaviour too.
