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Walking the Talk: Balance, Transparency, and a New Year

2021 has been a big year. To no one’s surprise. As we close out on this chapter, our team wanted to take a moment to be transparent with our supporter base about where we’re currently at, what’s delayed, and where we’re going to be reigning in our work. Spoiler alert: The punchline of this article is that DanceSafe is pretty much going offline for the last two weeks of the year. THE BACKSTORY For those of you who don’t know, DanceSafe has five staff members and about a dozen contractors. That’s the full extent of our team. We have dozens of projects on...

Injection Attacks: Are They Real?

The verdict: Injection attacks (being unconsensually stabbed and dosed with a drug) are extremely improbable at best.

A New Ketamine Test Kit is Now Available

We are proud to announce the release of our new Ketamine Testing Kit. Six months in development, this kit contains a new reagent called "Morris reagent." DanceSafe founder, Emanuel Sferios, describes the new kit, how we developed it, and how it works. Morris reagent is a game changer for harm reduction and drug checking.

Anxiety, Grief, & Partying

By: Rachel Clark, Programs & Communications CoordinatorEdited by: Sloane Ferenchak (#WeLoveConsent Coordinator) & DanceSafe Staff We’ll start with the obvious: Everyone on the planet has been impacted by COVID-19. Living through a global pandemic is a traumatic event. Our minds function under the premise that certain things are the way that they are, and having those pillars jostled (or removed entirely) lays a foundation of uncertainty. Basic, fundamental facts about what it means to be alive in the world have been threatened by COVID -- this is traumatizing, and it is a shared trauma between billions. We are now all in a...

NEW: DanceSafe Affiliate Program

Big news, DanceSafe community! Support DanceSafe’s public health mission and earn some extra cash by joining our Affiliate Program. Spread the word about our products and get paid for every order you refer to us. Affiliates aren't just salespeople, however. Anyone who refers others to our products using their unique referral link will be expected to employ proper harm reduction messaging that upholds DanceSafe’s standards of promoting accurate and non-judgmental information. You can find tons of additional information and sign up on the Affiliate Program landing page.

#TestIt Alert: Round orange pill with “U31” on one side sold online as Adderall (amphetamine) but actually contains exclusively methamphetamine.

By: Rachel Clark, Programs & Communications Coordinator A round orange pill with “U31” on one side and two break lines on the other was sold online as Adderall (amphetamine) but actually contains exclusively methamphetamine. The sample was submitted from San Diego, CA to Erowid’s DrugsData project. The sample turned orange in the presence of the Marquis reagent and did not react in the presence of the Mandelin or Mecke reagents. Adderall is a stimulant medication primarily prescribed to treat ADHD and narcolepsy. It is composed of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, moderately powerful central nervous system stimulants that increase heart rate, blood pressure, cognitive...

SOLD OUT – A DanceSafe and COSM joint fundraising blotter art!

THIS LIMITED EDITION BLOTTER IS NOW SOLD OUT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 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 Being is a 24 x 24 in. oil on linen painting that was part of the 'Being' series by Alex Grey. This is the first EVER joint Alex and Allyson Grey collaborative painting that's been made into blotter art! Printed with organic ink on blotter paper, only 222 of...

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 events, and writing #WLC toolbox series blog posts. Sloane has also been a panel member on the intersections of consent, sex, and substance use at international drug war conferences on #WLC’s behalf. Sloane has volunteered with DanceSafe since early 2018. Sloane first became involved in harm reduction at Boston University when she joined...

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 than three years, I've been trying to correct this error whenever it appears, but like a game of Whack-A-Mole, it keeps popping up. It appears in Facebook posts by well-meaning harm reduction advocates, on the websites of reputable harm reduction organizations, and even in printed material distributed to...

Supporter Spotlight: Sunrise Transparence

DanceSafe's incredible supporters hail from many geographic locations, personal backgrounds, and general walks of life. On this Supporter Spotlight, we meet Anj, who performs as the meditation and soundbath artist Sunrise Transparence. The Who: Anj (Sunrise Transparence) is a musician and teacher in Los Angeles, CA whose work centers around the practice of using music to heal and recenter, a practice that has been employed since Anj's childhood. Anj has been directing and teaching music for 14 years, having been a scholarship recipient at both USC (B.Mus. Music Industry, Magna Cum Laude) and UCLA (M.A. Composition for Visual Media). Anj continues...

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