TripApp : La dernière appli mobile innovante pour rendre l’usage de drogues plus sûr

L’application facilite l’accès à des données cruciales sur les drogues et les services de santé disponibles. Pour en savoir plus, en Anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

By Alexander Lekhtman, Filter Magazine

Imagine going on a night out with friends, planning to share some “ecstasy” pills you bought locally. What if you first wanted to know the quality and purity of your drugs, but didn’t have the means to check? And what if you wanted to find local harm reduction organizations, information and services that could help keep your drug use safer?

The developers behind TripApp sought to provide some answers.

The free app—which launched this month and is so far available in Spain, Italy and Germany—shares real-time data from the Trans-European Drug Information Project (TEDI), an international illicit drug checking network. It also collects data from consumers who check their own drugs with reagent kits or test strips. It constantly updates its data in order to alert consumers when adulterated or high-risk drug batches are detected in their location.

“We wanted the people to be the primary beneficiaries of this data.”

“We realized that in discussions about drug use, there’s a lot of talk about monitoring and controlling people who use drugs, but when do we ever consider talking to them?” Florian Scheibein, deputy director of Help Not Harm and one of the app’s founders, told Filter. “People who use drugs and their communities are often excluded from having data about the quality of their drugs, that’s normally collected by governments and academic institutions. We instead wanted the people to be the primary beneficiaries of this data.”