ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2023
Trends in drug use among nightclub and festival attendees in New York City, 2017-2022.
Article in The International journal on drug policy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of interventions that impact alcohol and other drug-related harms in licensed entertainment settings and outdoor music festivals.Harm reduction journal · 2024Pooled it
- Considering unintentional exposure when testing for cocaine use via oral fluid testing.Forensic science international · 2026Article
- Cannabis Use Among People Aged 65 and Older: Results From an Intercept Survey in New York City.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Multiyear Wastewater Monitoring of High-Risk Substances Surrounding an Annual Electronic Dance Music Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2023-2025: Surveillance Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Trends in Past-Year Use of Poppers Among New York City Nightclub Attendees, 2017-2024.Substance use & addiction journal · 2026Article
- Detection of Party Drugs on Mobile Phones in Relation to Self-Reported Use and Oral Fluid Detection Among NYC Nightclub Attendees.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Surface swabbing of nightclub venues to monitor the presence of cocaine, ketamine, and MDMA.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2026Article
- A systematic review of literature on substance use in nightlife settings utilizingDrug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Review
- The Epidemiology of Recreational Use and Availability of DOC and DOI in the United States.Journal of psychoactive drugs · 2025Article
- Exposures to synthetic cathinones, fentanyl, and xylazine among nightclub attendees in New York City, 2024.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Tusi use among the New York City nightclub-attending population.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Naloxone Acceptance among Nightclub Attendees in New York City.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- Trends in ketamine use among nightclub attendees in New York City, 2017-2024.The International journal on drug policy · 2025Article
- Trends and characteristics in ketamine use among US adults with and without depression, 2015-2022.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Trends in poisonings involving ketamine in the United States, 2019-2023.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Saliva detection of the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinolic acid A (THCA-A) and cannabinol (CBN) among nightclub attendees in New York City, 2024.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2025Article
- Increases in the use of drug testing kits among nightclub and festival attendees in New York City who use ecstasy, 2017-2022.Drug and alcohol review · 2024Article
- 3-Methoxy-Phencyclidine Induced Psychotic Disorder: A Literature Review and anPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Five cases of unintentional exposure to BZO-4en-POXIZID among nightclub attendees in New York City.Journal of analytical toxicology · 2024Article
- Trends in reported and biologically confirmed drug use among people who use ecstasy in the nightclub/festival-attending population, 2016-2022.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundDrug use is prevalent among people who attend electronic dance music (EDM) parties at nightclubs or festivals. This population can serve as a sentinel population to monitor trends in use of party drugs and new psychoactive substances (NPS) that may diffuse through larger segments of the population.
methodsWe surveyed adults entering randomly selected EDM parties at nightclubs and dance festivals in New York City about their drug use in 2017 (n=954), 2018 (n=1,029), 2019 (n=606), 2021 (n=229), and 2022 (n=419). We estimated trends in past-year and past-month use of 22 drugs or drug classes based on self-report from 2017-2022 and examined whether there were shifts pre- vs. post-COVID (2017-2019 vs. 2021-2022).
resultsBetween 2017 and 2022, there were increases in past-year and past-month use of shrooms (psilocybin), ketamine, poppers (amyl/butyl nitrites), synthetic cathinones ("bath salts"), and novel psychedelics (lysergamides and DOx series), increases in past-year cannabis use, and increases in past-month use of 2C series drugs. Between 2017 and 2022, there were decreases in past-year heroin use and decreases in past-month cocaine use, novel stimulant use, and nonmedical benzodiazepine use. The odds of use of shrooms, poppers, and 2C series drugs significantly increased after COVID, and the odds of use of cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, novel stimulants, and prescription opioids (nonmedical use) decreased post-COVID.
conclusionsWe estimate shifts in prevalence of various drugs among this sentinel population, which can inform ongoing surveillance efforts and public health response in this and the general populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.