
Community-based drug checking services across Los Angeles. Cutting-edge insights into the drug supply.
Get your drugs checked
Throughout the week, we set up at sites across Los Angeles to provide you with confidential drug checking services. Technologies include portable spectrometer (FTIR) and immunoassay test strips, which provide immediate results, as well as laboratory based testing.
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Sundays and Thursdays
7pm-9pm
1625 Schrader Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028
CHPLA’s mobile van site in the back parking lot of the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s McDonald/Wright Building
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Tuesdays & other times (Mon-Fri) by appt.
4-6pm
Inside of Bienestar Human Services
5400 E Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90022
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Thursdays*
768 Stanford Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note that this facility is a women-only space (trans and nonbinary inclusive). Men are welcome to bring samples but may be asked to wait outside while we analyze them.
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Wednesdays
11:30am-2pm
Inside of HOPICS drop-in center
5849 Crocker Street,. Los Angeles, CA 90003
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Can’t make it to an in person site? Email us for a mail-based alternative! checkingla@proton.me
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Have an event coming up where you want drug checking on site? Email us to inquire: checkingla@proton.me
Get to know us
Drug Checking Los Angeles empowers you to make safer, informed choices by providing accessible drug checking services and individualized health education.
By generating data that advances the understanding of the unregulated drug supply, we are informing policy, research, and interventions to save lives. Learn more
Published Research
Our Community Partners
Meet the team
Chelsea L. Shover, PhD
Ruby Romero
Adam Koncsol
Morgan Godvin
Caitlin Molina
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Need your drugs checked? Have questions about our drug supply research? Contact us!