Youth RISE has worked on the further development of the TripApp, a mobile application designed to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive substances. It consists of a variety of features that reduce the harms of using drugs, including: submitting and accessing results of drug checking, either through colorimetric reagent tests that TripApp users have conducted on their own, so they can alert the people in their area about possible dangers, or through laboratory results that have been submitted; a dose smart features which allows you to input your weight and see any identified ecstasy pills which may be particularly dangerous for your body weight; a safer use feature which contains information on how you can reduce the harms caused by the use of psychoactive substances; a legislation feature where you can find out the laws and policies in your country in relation to drugs; and finally, a service map, in which you can discover harm reduction services around the world depending on what service you require. 

It is important for us to ensure the map can be utilised by as many people as possible, with as many harm reduction services added as possible, so in order to promote this feature. Many materials were created: a video guide explaining how to input a new service to the map, and an infographic detailing the same, and a promotional video for TripApp with the creators of TripApp explaining their involvement and passion for the application and reasons for creating it.

What is TripApp: https://tripapp.org/

TripApp is a mobile application designed to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive substances, you can access both lab results and self reported results of drug checking to check for warnings on drugs in your location, you can also submit test results from your own drug checking on the app. You can access key harm reduction information about safer drug use, in its various forms, you can also access information about legislation in countries around the world (predominantly European countries so far but planning to push this out to include more countries soon). Finally, you can access a services map that allows you to find harm reduction services in the country you are in or travelling in, based on your location and the service type required.

The Resources:

‘Add Your Service’ Infographic: https://youthrise.org/resources/add-your-service/

  • This is an infographic detailing the steps for inputting a new service (or multiple at a time) to the services map. 
  • The services map is a tool that can be used to find harm reduction service providers all around the world, it is used by selecting your location and the types of services  you require and options pop up on the map in the form of pins, you click on the pin and find out the location, name of service, contact information, and website where applicable.

 

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‘Add Your Service’ Video: https://youtu.be/D_9HqzqK6uc 

  • This is a video that details the steps for inputting a new service (or multiple at a time) to the service map.
  • The services map is a tool that can be used to find harm reduction service providers all around the world, it is used by selecting your location and the types of services  you require and options pop up on the map in the form of pins, you click on the pin and find out the location, name of service, contact information, and website where applicable. 

‘Meet the Creators’ Video: https://youtu.be/-NbGEYy1JZI 

  • This is a video where the creators of the app explain what the motivations were to create this app in the beginning, and highlighting the importance of it and the various components of TripApp.