As part of the nightlife conference in Vienna, we invite you to visit one of Europe’s pioneering drug checking organizations. Besides others, our facility in Vienna offers stationary drug checking to individuals who use psychoactive substances. During the visit of the checkit!-homebase, you will learn how a drug checking organization operates and gain insights into its essential role in harm reduction. Trained staff will demonstrate the sample submission procedure, explaining the opportunities and challenges that arise in interactions with service users—whether during the initial contact or when delivering analysis results. This session offers a deeper understanding of evidence-based prevention and the impact of these services on modern public health strategies.

The number of spots for this excursion is limited. Please sign up at checkit@suchthilfe.at

Note that the laboratory is located elsewhere and thus not part of this field visit.

English Health / Harm Reduction

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  Diana Kufner-Eger she/her

  checkit! Austria

  Diana Kufner-Eger works as a counsellor at the addiction prevention organization checkit! - Suchthilfe Wien. Her core responsibilities include providing counseling to clients who want to address their substance use and integrated drug …

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  Gregor Bader he/him

  checkit! Austria

  Gregor Bader works as a counsellor at the addiction prevention organisation checkit! at Suchthilfe Wien in Vienna, Austria. His core responsibilities include integrated drug checking both at the counselling center and at events, developing …

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  Stefan Hauser he/him

  checkit! Austria

  Stefan Hauser works as a counsellor at the addiction prevention organization checkit! - Suchthilfe Wien. His core responsibilities include integrated drug checking at the “Homebase” and providing counseling to clients who want to address …

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