We have divided the testing results up into three categories:
The annual reports done after each season.
Visit the Testing reports section
Use Shiny App to see our results by substance
These reports are one-offs by KnowYourStuffNZ investigating things like risk perception.
The data in these reports has been collected from different festivals through New Zealand.
Initial testing is carried out using reagents such as Marquis and Mandelin, as well as Ehrlich’s for detecting LSD.
More detailed testing at events is carried out using a Bruker ALPHA – a Fourier transform infra-red spectrometer. This uses infra-red light to generate a characteristic absorption spectrum for each sample, allowing the detection of drugs, adulterants, and mixtures.
While the testing is being carried out, our volunteers have free and frank harm reduction conversations with the clients.
Select what year’s data you want to see, using the dropdown menu. Select ‘All’ to view the results summed across all years
In the panel of checkboxes, select at least one substance from the list. These substances are what clients thought they had before their pills had been tested.
Once you have selected at least one substance, a chart and a table will appear. These show the testing results, i.e. what the pills (that clients thought contained the substance you selected) actually turned out to contain. For example, if you select ‘Amphetamine’, you will see the testing results for all of the pills that were thought by clients to contain Amphetamine.
The chart shows testing results grouped into drug families. These families are groupings of drugs that have similar structures and psychoactive effects.
The table shows the full list of drugs that were found (‘Drug’ column), the family that each drug is grouped into (‘Drug family’ column), and the number of pills that contained that drug (‘Number of samples’ column).
If you select more than one presumed substance, the testing results will be added up across all of those presumed substances.
For more results from KnowYourStuffNZ’s drug checking, visit the Testing Reports page
These pages have been made using R. The code can be found at https://github.com/Hokioi/KYSNZ_201819_shiny_app This report was compiled by Andrea Knox and Katie Double.
