KnowYourStuffNZ's pill testing results

KnowYourStuffNZ tested 2753 pills at 51 events from 2016 to 2020. Below you can select the substances that people thought they had. The chart and table show you what those pills actually contained. 

              

              
What pills actually contained (results grouped by drug family)

              

              

              
What pills actually contained (detail on specific drugs)

              

              
                Note that the composition of the 'Other' drug family varies 
                                                             across seasons as it was derived from each year's data by 
                                                             grouping together drugs that were found infrequently
              
            

          

        

        

          

            
Context

            

              KnowYourStuffNZ
               is a community organisation of volunteers operating in collaboration with the 
              New Zealand Drug Foundation
               to provide drug related harm reduction services at events around New Zealand. These pages show
                      KnowYourStuffNZ pill testing results for events attended between 1 April 2016 and 
                      31 March 2020.
            

            
How to see the results 

            
Click on the 'Pill testing results' tab above.

            
Select which season's data you want to look at

            
Use the dropdown menu to select what year's data you want to see. Select 'All' to view the results summed across all years

            
Select which presumed substance/s you want to look at

            
In the panel of checkboxes, select at least one substance from the list. These substances are 
                    what clients thought they had before their pills had been tested.

            
Once you have selected at least one substance, a chart and a table will appear. 
                    These show the testing results, i.e. what the pills (that clients thought contained the substance 
                    you selected) actually turned out to contain. For example, if you select 'Amphetamine', 
                    you will see the testing results for all of the pills that were thought by clients to contain 
                      Amphetamine.

            
Results chart

            
The chart shows testing results grouped into drug families. These families are groupings of 
                      drugs that have similar structures and psychoactive effects.

            
Results table

            
The table shows the full list of drugs that were found ('Drug' column), the family that 
                    each drug is grouped into ('Drug family' column), and the number of pills that contained 
                    that drug ('Number of samples' column).

            
Selecting more than one presumed substance

            
If you select more than one presumed substance, the testing results will be added up across 
                      all of those presumed substances.

            
Further information

            

              For more results from KnowYourStuffNZ's pill testing, visit 
              https://knowyourstuff.nz/our-results/
              

                These pages have been made using R. The code for an earlier version of this Shiny app can be found at 
                https://github.com/Hokioi/KYSNZ_201819_shiny_app