Toronto Drug Checking Amnesty Program Stakeholders, including harm reduction organizations and government officials, are now working together in Toronto in an effort to create an amnesty program for drug checking in Canada’s largest city. The proposed drug checking amnesty initiative is part of Toronto’s overdose action plan presented in March and is ... Read more

Sarah Merrigan from This Week in Drugs (TWiD), a podcast about all things drugs, hosted DanceSafe’s Kristin Karas and Madalyn McElwain in a round table discussion highlighting nightlife harm reduction. The three, who are all alumni of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, discussed the importance of DanceSafe’s services and debunked the myth that DanceSafe ... Read more

In November of last year, Denver voters passed Initiative 300, which allows for limited social cannabis consumption by adults in designated consumption areas within establishments that have received support from their local eligible neighborhood association and have obtained a permit from the City of Denver. The initiative, however, has recently faced ... Read more

It was a November day in 1938, when Swiss chemist Albert Holfmann created his twenty-fifth lysergic acid combination for pharmaceutical giant Sandoz. Although the experiment animals became highly excited during testing, this particular synthesization did not spark any interest from the pharmacologists and physicians because it did not stimulate circulation ... Read more

Kristin Karas, Director of Programs at DanceSafe, was one of eight people to be invited to present at National Public Health Week in Greeley, Colorado this past week. As part of an initiative to recruit and raise awareness of public health programs, the Colorado School of Public Health hosted an ignite session called “Who and What is Public Health?” Karas ... Read more

  DanceSafe partnered with organizations across the globe to host the first annual International Day of Drug Checking on March 31, 2017, an initiative to raise awareness of the tools that exist to help mitigate risks for people who choose to use illicit drugs. Utilizing a “harm reduction” approach, public health organizations such as ... Read more

March 27, 2017 By the DanceSafe Board Over the last few years, the nightlife community’s awareness of harm reduction has increased exponentially. A conference rarely goes by without a panel dedicated to reducing the risks participants face at nightlife events, and these panels are often standing room only. There are literally dozens of independent harm ... Read more