Drug users swap stories, share warnings online in search for safety
16 November 2016
By Kate Aubusson
Instead of swapping travel tips and hotel reviews, users on the website Bluelight share their "trip reports": the things they experience under the influence of drugs.
Pill reports and harm reduction sites have become the most popular sources of information for drug users around the world, alerting them to bad batches circulating in the community.
Most illegal drugs are produced with no quality control, exposing users to a greater risk of harm from high doses, low purity and, in rare cases, drugs that are contaminated with substances that can be more potent than the drug itself.
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