English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Over the last decade, rates of fentanyl-related overdoses have increased substantially across North America, a phenomenon which has widely been described as the “fentanyl epidemic.” While research has explored the cultural impact of the fentanyl epidemic on opioid and/or injection drug use, less is known about its impact on other types of drug use. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research with people who use club drugs in Toronto’s Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scene, this study looks at how people who use club drugs make sense of and respond to the fentanyl epidemic. Data for the study was collected via participant observation and semi-structured interviews (n = 26). The key finding was that fentanyl contamination had become a “risk priority” for the participants. They thereby adjusted their drug-using behaviors to account for this risk. However, by prioritizing fentanyl contamination above everything else, they often overlooked and/or disregarded other forms of harm reduction that they had once practiced (like getting testing kits to test for other adulterants). The findings suggest that the fentanyl epidemic has impacted not only practices of illegal opioid use, but also practices of club drug use. They suggest that the fentanyl epidemic has in some ways facilitated the adoption of risk management, while in other ways undermined it. The findings are interpreted with reference to Rhodes’ “risk environment” framework and with particular attention to the need for harm reduction interventions that take into consideration how risk perceptions and behaviors are situation- and context-dependent.

Fentanyl Contamination as a Risk Priority: the Impact of the Fentanyl Epidemic on Club Drug-Using Behaviours