Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

·Measham, F. and Simmons, H. (2022), Who uses drug checking services? Assessing uptake and outcomes at English festivals in 2018, Drugs, Habits and Social Policy, special issue on drug checking, 23(4). https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DHS-02-2022-0008/full/html

·Barratt, M. and Measham, F. (2022), What is drug checking, anyway? Drugs, Habits and Social Policy, special issue on drug checking, 23 (4) . https://doi.org/10.1108/dhs-01-2022-0007

· Falzon, D., Aston, E., Carver H., Masterton, W., Wallace, B., Sumnall, H., Measham, F., Fletcher, E., Gittins, R., Priyadarshi, S. and Parkes, T. (2022), Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions, Harm Reduction Journal, 19 (105). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00686-6

· Masterton, W., Falzon, D., Burton, G., Carver, H., Wallace, B., Aston, E., Sumnall, H., Measham, F., Gittins, R., Craik, V., Schofield, J., Little, S. and Parkes, T. (2022), A Realist Review of How Community-Based Drug Checking Services Could Be Designed and Implemented to Promote Engagement of People Who Use Drugs, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (19): 11960; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911960

Vrolijk, R., Measham, F., Quesada, A., Luf, A., Schori, D., Radley, S., Acreman, D., Verdenik, M., Martins, D. Cuhnac, M., Paulos, C., Piccinin, I., Gerace, E., Koning, R., Smit-Rigter, L. and Ventura, M. (2022), Size Matters: Comparing the MDMA content and weight of ecstasy tablets submitted to European drug checking services in 2012-2021, Drugs, Habits and Social Policy,

Pascoe, M., Radley, S., Simmons, H. and Measham, F. (2022), The Cathinone Hydra: Increased cathinone and caffeine adulteration in the English MDMA market after Brexit and COVID-19 lockdowns, Drug Science, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1177/20503245221099209

McCormack, M., Measham, F., Measham, M. and Wignall, L. (2022), Kink in an English Field: The Drinking, Drug use and Sexual Practices of English Festival-Goers Who Engage in Kink, Sexuality and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-09968-4

Adley, M., Jones, G. and Measham, F. (2022), Jump-starting the conversation about harm reduction: making sense of drug effects, Drugs: Education, Prevention, Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.2013774

Oomen, P., Schori, D., Tögel-Lins, K., Acreman, D., Chenorhokian, S., Luf , A., Paulos, C., Fornero, E., Koning, R., Galindo, L., Measham, F. and Ventura, M. (2022), Cannabis adulterated with the synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist MDMB-4en-PINACA and the role of European drug checking services, International Journal of Drug Policy, 100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103493

Measham, F. and Turnbull, G. (2021), Intentions, Actions and Outcomes: A follow up survey on harm reduction practices after using an English festival drug checking service, International Journal of Drug Policy, 95: 1-10. 103270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103270

McCormack, M., Measham, F. and Wignall, L. (2021), The normalization of leisure sex and recreational drugs: Exploring associations between polydrug use and sexual practices by English festival-goers, Contemporary Drug Problems, 48 (2), 185-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509211009901.

Measham, F., Fellowes, F., Ward, S., Jones, G., Holden, B. and Baird, N. (2020), Onsite medical and support services and the introduction of the UK’s first drug checking service at Secret Garden Party festival in 2016: Response to Scott and Scott, Internal Medicine Journal, 50 (8): 1024-1025. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.14952

Measham, F. (2020), City Checking: Piloting the UK’s first community-based drug safety testing (‘drug checking’) service in 2 city centres, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Special Issue: New Psychoactive Substances, 86 (3): 420-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14231

Measham, F. (2019), Drug safety testing, disposals and dealing in an English field: Exploring the operational and behavioural outcomes of the UK’s first onsite ‘drug checking’ service, International Journal of Drug Policy, May, 67, 102-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.11.001

Giné, C., Vilamala, M., Measham, F., Brunt, T., Bücheli, A., Paulos, C., Valente, H., Martins, D., Libois, B., Tögel-Lins, K., Jones, G., Karden, A. and Barratt, M. (2017) The utility of drug checking services as monitoring tools and more: A response to Pirona et al, International Journal of Drug Policy, 45: 46-47.

Book Chapters

 

Measham, F. (2020), The NPS imposters, merging and emerging drug markets and the contribution of drug checking, in Bewley-Taylor, D. & Tinasti, K. (eds), Research Handbook on International Drug Policy, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), pp.341-354.

Turner, T. and Measham, F. (2019), Into The Woods: Contextualising atypical intoxication by young adults in music festivals and nightlife tourist resorts, in Conroy, D. and Measham, F. (ed.s), Young Adult Drinking Styles: Current Perspectives on Research, Policy and Practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.87-114