Understanding Drug and Alcohol Staff Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Drug Checking: A Qualitative Study
The following factors were identified as paramount to the uptake of drug checking services among PWUD: (i) confidentiality; (ii) agreements or memoranda of understanding that protect service clients from over-policing and criminalisation; (iii) mobile and fixed-site services that are accessible to PWUD; and (iv) a non-judgemental and safe environment that includes both health professionals and peer workers with lived experience.
Authors
- Cameron Francis
- Anthony Barnett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-4585)
- Leanne Hides (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-8460)
- Nina Pocuca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-1680)
- Brodie C. Dakin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-0813)
- Daniel Stjepanović (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4307-423X)
- Cheneal Puljević (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3658-9772)
Institutions
- The University of Queensland (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Drug and Alcohol Review
- Published
- 2025-05-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.14073
- Primary Topic
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Australian Government
- University of Queensland
- Department of Health and Aged Care, Australian Government
- Medical Research Council
- Australian Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council