Pricing
We are a public service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We serve drug user unions, harm reduction programs, clinics, and health departments. Law enforcement is prohibited from using our service. Pricing may change based on our funding.
All options include one postage-paid return mailer for every 5 samples.
Contact us if you want to work out a different arrangement. If demand gets too high, we may limit the total number of free kits each month. We are unable to provide services to individuals directly in order to keep the service anonymous. But you can ask your local harm reduction program to contact us, or DrugsData.org can serve individuals.
Within North Carolina
Drug User Unions: free
Harm Reduction Programs: free
Health Departments: free
Outside NC
Drug User Unions: free
Harm Reduction Programs (without FTIR): first 5 free. Up to 100 additional kits/year, $20/each (including analysis). Please contact us for pricing if you anticipate needing more than 100 kits/year.
Health Departments and “Confirmatory” Testing: first 5 free. For ongoing services, $200 for pack of 20 kits plus $50 per sample for analysis.
Researchers
We are happy to provide our service for research studies as long as the results get reported back to participants quickly. Please contact us for pricing and consultation packages.
Reasons why you might want to consider confirmatory/secondary testing
If you have an FTIR machine and are interested in "secondary" testing with GCMS, here is a range of circumstances where lab-based analysis might be helpful.
Fentanyl positive on test strip, but negative on FTIR (low concentration or contamination)
No detectable opioid matches on heroin samples
Low FTIR match scores for active ingredient
Drug mixtures that have 4+ substances
The first time you see a new drug (e.g., like a PCP analogue)
A random sample of FTIR spectra for quality assurance
If you're interested in synthesis methods (e.g., P2P methamphetamine)
Subset validation for research publication
Liquid drugs (can be handled on FTIR, but can be finicky)
Most pills
Organic substances (cannabis leaf, mushrooms)
Random 10% to 20% of samples for quality assurance