Trans-European Drug Information
The Trans-European Drug Information (TEDI) project is a European database compiling information from different drug checking services located on the European continent. The non-governmental organizations feeding into the database are referred to as the TEDI network.
"TEDI" redirects here. For other uses, see Tedi (disambiguation).Abbreviation
History[edit]
The first drug checking service in Europe opened in 1986 in Amsterdam, allowing drug users to analyze the chemical composition of illicit substances that they consume.[1] In the following years, a number of nonprofit organizations present in various other drug scenes[2] in several countries (including in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland) set up drug checking services.[3]
In 2011, a database was created for to centralize information from these services and allow for the sharing of alerts (for example on new adulterants in illicit substances[4] or circulation of novel psychoactive substance[5]) and the monitoring of drug markets across borders.[6]
Between 2008 and 2013, organizations member of the TEDI network analyzed more than 45,000 samples of recreational drugs, showing similarities and discrepancies between areas of the European continent in terms of purity, formulation, or prices.[7]