The BAONPS project ended but its actions are still producing effects. This last newsletter is an update about what is happening one year after, in the countries involved in the project. The video produced under the BAONPS project, are now available for free on YouTube. You will find the link at the end of… Read More ->

At the end of the BAONPS project, partners produced some videos presenting the main activities carried out in two years of work: drug checking and outreach interventions. It is possible to watch the videos in which the project partners explain the techniques and the methods used in each country in outreach and drug checking activities…. Read More ->

  Alongside finding new psychoactive substances and evaluating their spread among partygoers through the use of drug checking, the BAONPS project sought to shed light on different aspects of the NPS phenomenon. Why do people use these substances (of which little is known, included short and long term adverse effects)?  Are they aware of what… Read More ->

BAONPS project’s main aim was to identify new psychoactive substances by using different kind of drug checking, both in party settings and outside them. This project wanted to improve the awareness and knowledge of drugs and NPS, their risks and effects, among partygoers; furthermore it aimed to understand meanings and consumption patterns concerning NPS and… Read More ->

  Despite they they have been used for millennia by South – American indigenous tribes, DMT and Ayahuaska are today  considered NPSs (UNODC, The Challenge of new psychoactive substances – Global SMART Programme, 2013). This is probably due to the fact that the use of this substances is spreading all around the Western world, both… Read More ->

  On March, 31st the first International Day of Drug Checking was celebrated all around the world. The International Day of Drug Checking was an initiative hosted by a diverse group of organizations and stakeholders that play an active part in the delivery of harm reduction services. The initiative aimed to both celebrate and raise awareness of… Read More ->

  This newsletter is dedicated to the cannabis theme because of the discussions about cannabis regulation that are taking place in Italy and because a wind of change seems to be blowing toward cannabis consumption at international level. In fact UNGASS 2016 established that the countries can decide and legislate on cannabis as they see… Read More ->

  In this newsletter we disseminate the results of Czech studies about “New Syntethic Drugs” (NSD). In Czech Republic new substances seem to be mostly used among Problem Drug Users (PDUs) and dance partygoers. The NSD mainly used are synthetic cathinones but the Czech researchers noticed that users prefer traditional drugs. Many people take NPS… Read More ->

  “New psychoactive substances (NPS) have emerged at the start of this millennium, initially attracting a small number of drug enthusiasts. Around 2010 the rise of brick & mortar NPS stores accelerated the diffusion of these unscheduled drugs in several EU countries and, with 400 new drugs notified to the EMCDDA in 2014, their proliferation… Read More ->

  Formal drug-checking in Italy: first feedbacks from the field Lorenzo Camoletto – BAONPS Project Manager On 27th February 2016 for the first time the BAONPS project formally proposed drug-checking to partygoers during a psy-trance party near Turin. This was an opportunity to check the level of satisfaction obtained by the offer among partygoers/substance users,… Read More ->