Coming 12/12 – A DanceSafe and COSM joint fundraising blotter art!

THE LINK TO PURCHASE THIS ART FOR $150 + SHIPPING WILL BE POSTED HERE AT 12:12 PM MST ON 12/12 Just in time for the holidays, DanceSafe is thrilled to announce a joint fundraiser for DanceSafe and The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, featuring blotter art of Secret Writing Being by Alex and Allyson Grey! Painted by Alex and Allyson Grey in 2005, Secret Writing ... Read more

Welcome to the Team: Hannah Procell

DanceSafe is excited to announce the addition of Hannah Procell to the team! Hannah Procell (she/her) received her bachelor’s degree from New College of Florida, the same university from which our Executive Director hails! There, she led her school’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) for 3 years, and in 2018 received the Prometheus Award ... Read more

Welcome to the Team: Sloane Ferenchak

As part of our #WeLoveConsent program, DanceSafe is welcoming Sloane Ferenchak as a resident expert contractor! Sloane has provided services to DanceSafe as an intern for the #WeLoveConsent program since 2018, creating educational materials, designing the soon-to-be released Bystander Intervention Training Program, assisting in the planning of outreach ... Read more

WARNING! – You may be using fentanyl testing strips incorrectly!

WARNING! You may be using fentanyl testing strips incorrectly By Emanuel Sferios, DanceSafe founder Photo: Our new micro scoops – available here – which are meant to improve the safety and efficacy of fentanyl strip testing. A dangerous set of instructions for using fentanyl testing strips has been making rounds across the internet. For more ... Read more

Young Folks: Get Out the Vote!

By: Erica Darragh 2020 has been a year of profound change. At the beginning of the year, a deeply polarizing Democratic primary revealed distinct generational divides in political views and priorities. In the spring, economic disparity crystallized during the COVID-19 pandemic. By summer, the racial justice uprising ignited millions of people around the ... Read more

Hispanic Heritage Month: Mitchell Gomez

Our Executive Director, Mitchell Gomez, is of mixed (and complex) heritage. His mother’s family are European Jews who escaped Russia and Ukraine during the pogroms of the late 1800s and early 1900s. His father’s family is comprised of many different groups, with a documented ancestry stretching back to the 1500s in what are now New Mexico and ... Read more

Why Does DanceSafe Release Test It! Alerts?

By: Rachel Clark, Programs & Communications Coordinator Greetings, DanceSafers! As many of you know, we routinely release Test It! Alerts that detail the appearance, location, and contents of adulterated drugs around the country based on Erowid’s DrugsData Project and community-submitted entries. We believe that this information on its own is useful ... Read more

DanceSafe Adds Programs & Communications Coordinator to its Growing Staff

The DanceSafe Staff and Board are thrilled to announce the addition of Rachel “Sputnik” Clark to the DanceSafe National team! Rachel has provided services to DanceSafe as a contractor for the last year, taking over our social media, Test It! Alerts, volunteer onboarding and coordination, and other program and communications-related tasks. Prior to ... Read more

#TestIt Alert: Bag of white powder sold in Philadelphia, PA as cocaine but actually contains phenacetin, cocaine, benzocaine, levamisole, and others

By: Rachel Clark, Programs & Communications Coordinator A bag of soft white powder was sold in Philadelphia, PA as cocaine, but actually contains phenacetin, cocaine, benzocaine, levamisole, and others. The sample was submitted from Baltimore, MD to Erowid’s DrugsData Project. The sample did not react in the presence of the Marquis reagent, and turned ... Read more

Ketamine Bladder Damage – What You Need to Know

Using ketamine can be fun, and recent studies have shown it to have antidepressant effects. (1) But using it too often can damage your bladder and result in a serious condition known as Ketamine Bladder Syndrome (a.k.a. Ketamine Cystitis). Your bladder is a round sac behind your pelvic bone that holds urine. It is about the size of a grapefruit, but can ... Read more