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DanceSafe
Website: http://www.dancesafe.org/
About the Organization
Dancesafe is a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. They currently have local chapters in twenty-four cities throughout the US and Canada.
Their local chapters consist of young people from within the dance culture itself who have a sincere interest in bettering their communities and educating themselves and their peers. They train their volunteers to be health educators and drug abuse prevention counselors within their own communities, utilizing the principles and methods of harm reduction and popular education.
Dancesafe volunteers staff harm reduction booths at raves, nightclubs and other dance events where they provide information on drugs, safer sex, and other health and safety issues concerning the electronic dance community (like driving home safely and protecting one's hearing).
Involvement with EcstasyData.org
DanceSafe.org provided their pill testing results to seed the EcstasyData.org database. Their pill testing was done by Drug Detection Laboratories (DDL), the same lab doing the testing for the current program.
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