Workshop

28.11.2025 11.30 - 13.00

Collaborative Lab Brainstorm: Drug Checking challenges & solutions

This session offers a collaborative and technically focused brainstorm for professionals working in or with drug checking laboratories. Rather than traditional presentations or a panel format, the session is designed as a structured brainstorm, aimed at sharing analytical challenges and exploring potential solutions together.  

Health & Prevention

Participants are invited to contribute cases involving any analytical technique—GC, LC, FTIR, NMR, or others. Whether you are dealing with persistent detection issues, navigating method development, or want to contribute your expertise to solving analytical chemistry related puzzles, you are invited to this brainstorm. This session provides a platform for open exchange and peer-to-peer support. The goal is to foster technical dialogue, encourage knowledge sharing, and stimulate collaboration across the international drug checking community.

If you would like to participate with a case, please contact mireia@energycontrol.org and CC  lstegemann@trimbos.nl and adiez@energycontrol.org, including a brief description of your case to help us prepare the session. If submitting in advance is not possible, we kindly ask you to prepare your case in a way that allows for easy discussion during the brainstorm.

Even if you do not have a case to present but you are involved in a drug checking lab, you are warmly invited to join and contribute to the conversation.

Workshop leaders:

  • Lavina Stegemann, Drug information and Monitoring System (DIMS)
  • Anna Diez, Energycontrol Barcelona

Workshop, organised by TEDI