Drug checking

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Under drug testing or Pill testing (also: Drugchecking, Pill Testing) is the chemical analysis of mostly on the black market traded psychotropic substances, to warn potential consumers from particularly harmful preparations and thus the dangers of the use of drugs with unknown composition can arise, diminish and promote drug empowerment .

Specifically, this is, for example, a drug test bench at a techno event , where the drugs brought along can be tested for active ingredient content and composition. Ideally, there is also extensive information material on the substances.

Drug-checking options are already available in various European countries, for example in Austria , the Netherlands and Switzerland . In Spain and France , drug checking is carried out by government or semi-government agencies.

In 2008, the “Drug-Checking Berlin-Brandenburg” initiative was founded in Germany to establish drug-checking services in Germany's state drug support system.

The Federal Drug Commissioner also had various scene-related associations develop a concept for carrying out drug checking, but these are not used in practice.

history

In Germany, the Eve & Rave association did the first drug checking at parties in the 1990s . This was stopped by investigations by the police. After the defendants were completely acquitted, the Federal Ministry of Health sent an instruction to all state laboratories that they should not accept any samples from civil organizations.

Since 2005 there has been a peer group project in Berlin called “Autonomous Drug Info Stand ”, which offers color reaction tests with Marquis reagent (Mecke, Simons, Mandelin reagent) at parties. In order to avoid criminal liability, the "self-examination model" from the report on "The admissibility of drug checking, legal risks and side effects of drug checking" by Harald Hans Körner is tested.

"In order to avoid criminal liability of the test persons, it is possible that the client does not hand over the unknown substances to the test person, but rather prepares the investigation and evaluation of the unknown suspicious substances himself: a) by scraping off the tablet, b) by measuring and describing the Tablet, c) by dropping a reagent liquid on it. If the tester only identifies the substance by evaluating around ten characteristics of the sample and the result of a color test with the aid of current evaluation lists from the Netherlands, he is not liable to prosecution for acquiring, procuring, possessing or dispensing narcotic drugs. The communication of the test result to the consumer or his relatives, teachers, trainers etc. furthermore does not represent an advertisement for narcotics within the meaning of § 29 Abs. 1 Nr. 8 BtMG, nor the creation of an opportunity for consumption within the meaning of § 29 Abs. 1 Nr. 10 BtMG. Because no drug source is tapped for the consumer, but merely a harm-minimizing consumer information. "

- Dr. Harald Hans Körner : The admissibility of drug checking, legal risks and side effects of drug checking

literature

  • Annemieke Benschop, Manfred Rabes, Dirk J. Korf: Pill Testing - Ecstasy & Prevention - A Scientific Evaluation Study in Three European Cities , Amsterdam 2002, Rozenberg Publishers, ISBN 90-5170-685-5
  • Hans Cousto: Drug-Checking - Qualitative and quantitative control of ecstasy and other substances , 2nd revised and updated edition, Solothurn 1999, Nachtschatten Verlag, ISBN 3-907080-23-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Paul: ECSTASY: Bad luck with lucky pills . In: October 21, 1996, FOCUS No. 43. October 23, 2008, accessed on October 23, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Report on drug checking in Germany and Austria ( memento from February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the ARD program Polylux from December 18, 2007.
  3. ↑ http://www.eve-rave.net/abfahrer/download.sp?id=1820
  4. ↑ The admissibility of drug checking, legal risks and side effects of drug checking Expert opinion on the admissibility of drug checking with two proposed solutions