Molly Watson
Founder of A.CAB
I co-lead the substance analysis program at Queen City Harm Reduction in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I build open tools that help people who use drugs stay safer.
I started A.CAB because finding drug checking shouldn’t take insider knowledge. It’s a free, community-maintained directory of drug checking services across the United States and Canada: walk-in sites, event teams, mobile outreach and mail-in labs. Every listed service has told us it keeps nothing that could identify you with your sample.
Alongside A.CAB I work on open drug-information tools: SubstanceSearch, where I’ve added substance statistics, trip-report sections and a careful audit of dosage data, and SideChain, a public chemical dictionary for drug checking built with the UNC Street Drug Analysis Lab and partners, which I’m one of the authors of.
Projects
- A.CABFounder. A free directory of drug checking services in the US and Canada.
- Queen City Harm ReductionCo-lead of the substance analysis program. Harm reduction and syringe services in Charlotte, NC, part of the Center for Prevention Services.
- SubstanceSearchDrug information: substance statistics, trip reports and dosage-data audits.
- SideChainAuthor. A public chemical dictionary for drug checking: plain-language entries for the substances found in street drugs, built with the UNC Street Drug Analysis Lab, the University of Victoria and the American College of Medical Toxicology.