Safe Substance

Interactive drug harm reduction for substance combinations

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Interactive drug harm reduction for substance combinations

3 followers

Safe Substance is an interactive tool to help people visualize the risks associated with combining substances. With this tool, users can learn about, and protect themselves from, common drug interactions that currently kill thousands of people every year.

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Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Education•Internet of Things

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BotgaugeAdaptive red-teaming that learns how your AI agent behaves, then keeps pushing.

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Hey, Product Hunters! I initially released Safe Substance following a lethal drug overdose in my community. I fear that the current state of harm reduction education is failing many vulnerable people, which leads to an immense amount of unnecessary suffering and death. With this tool, I hope to provide an accessible starting point for people's research so that we can start building towards a safer world. Feedback is extremely welcome! Thanks and stay safe everybody :)

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5yr ago

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@zachary_jordan1 where do you source this information from? Have you considered building a bot that people can text a list of substances to and get a response back? Seems like that might be easier to use when out?

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5yr ago

@zachary_jordan1 yes, indeed. Also, there are pretty general and individual characteristics, it should warn you what is the impact of the substances (that you previously selected) if taken simultaneously.

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5yr ago

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@teodora_tatu The overview card is the list of general/individual characteristics, but the "risk assessment" is based on any interactions that are detected between substances. For instance, neither alcohol nor opiates will trigger a "lethal risk" warning by themselves, but if combined the system will recognize that harm and warn the user. Not every combination is included within the system, and if more than 5 substances of any kind are entered a warning is displayed that notes that we do not yet have adequate research to identify unique combinations between many types of substances. Thank you for your feedback! If there's a way that you think I could make this clearer to the end user I would love to hear it so that changes can be made.

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5yr ago

@zachary_jordan1 🙏🏼 Good Luck

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5yr ago

What an unrealistically paranoid tool. Without offering context, justification, or grounding as to why substances are ruled bad ideas, there’s NO harm reduction information, no context or explanation given to most judgements, and apparently a big need for advice on say datura use but nothing in particular about MAO Inhibitors, no direction to more sources for support, and little data that doesn’t sound like it could be read aloud in the voice of Nancy Reagan. I’m sorry to discourage your effort if you feel that you were sincerely laboring to save lives, but I’d bet this has no effect at best and may cost lives by scaring people away from discussions and consideration on whether or not they use a substance and how to do so safely. For a far better example of how you might have done this, see ANYTHING over at Erowid (www.erowid.org) and give them your efforts and applause.

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5yr ago

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@harreld Citations are marked in green and are included in all substances listed on the website. Erowid was a great resource that I used, and linked to, many times throughout this project. If you read the "How to Use" section, you will see that I assumed that people are both using these substances recreationally and are not following proper harm reduction practices involving dosing (erring on the side of caution, in other words). If you're familiar with the organization TripSafe, they have a wonderful chart that covers certain lethal interactions — you can think of this application as an interactive distillation of that resource. Thanks for checking it out and providing feedback!

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5yr ago

What a great tool. Thanks for keeping people safe. People use drugs and this is going to keep more of them alive.

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5yr ago

It's really refreshing to see pro-social projects like this, rather than another notion template pack.. Thank you for using your talents on something meaningful. Best of luck.

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5yr ago

Big problem worth solving.. Glad you're onto it. So needed

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5yr ago

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@chris_olufeso Thank you, Chris! I appreciate you checking it out.

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5yr ago

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