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12 August 2026

Drug Checking: What Happens When People Know What’s in Their Drugs? 

  • What is drug checking? | Clare Schmidt
  • Drug Checking in Mexico’s Zona Norte | Clara Fleiz Bautista
  • Checa tu sustancia! | Zara Snapp
  • Facilitator: Andrew Scheibe

19 August 2026

Early Warning Systems: Responding to an increasingly toxic drug supply 

  • Early warning systems | Adams Sibley
  • Early warning systems | speaker TBC
  • NORTEST MX: Community Drug Checking Network of Northern Mexico’s Border Region| Alejandro Ortiz Ramírez
  • Facilitator: Nadine Harker

26 August 2026

Overdose Prevention Sites: The Intervention Everyone Debates and Nobody Regrets

  • LA ZONA, a safe space in Tijuana | Alfonso Chavez Rivera
  • An overdose prevention site in Cali | Alejandro Ángel López
  • Verter: safe consumption in Mexicali | Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira
  • Facilitator: Shaun Shelly

Speakers 12 August

Clare Schmidt

Remedy Alliance USA

Clara Fleiz Bautista

Autonmous University of Mexico

Zara Snapp

Instituto Ria, Mexico

Andrew Scheibe

TB HIV Care, South Africa

Speakers 19 August

Adam Sibley

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA

Alejandro Ortiz Ramírez

Programa Compañeros, Mexico

Nadine Harker

SA MRC, South Africa

TBC

European Union Drugs Agency, Portugal

Speakers 26 August

Alfonso Chavez Rivera

Prevencasa, Mexico

Alejandro Ángel Lopez

Viviendo, Colombia

Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira

Verter, Mexico

Shaun Shelly

Consultant, South Africa