Helena Valente

Biographic Data

ID878869
NAMEHelena Valente
GIVEN NAMESHelena
FAMILY NAMEValente
SIGNATUREVALENTE H
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade do Porto
ORCID0000-0002-8564-1258
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Drug use Risks in Portuguese Rural vs Urban Environments

    Marta Pinto, Cristiana Vale Pires et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs2025

    Portugal is commonly recognized as one of the best drug policy examples in the world. Nonetheless, contrasts between drug use risks in rural vs urban settings in the country is an understudied topic, even if its specific challenges are commonly affirmed, both by professionals and people who use drugs (PWUD). The aim of this study was to compare rural and urban environments concerning socio-sanitary services availability; illegal drugs availabilit…

  • Responsibility, Care and Trust Among People Using Drug Checking Services at a Music Festival

    Open AccessHelena Valente, Monica J Barratt et al.ARTICLEContemporary Drug Problems2024References: 79

    Drug checking services (DCS) allow people who use drugs to submit substances of concern for chemical analysis and then provide results and specialized counselling when needed. DCS intersect risk management, from a public health perspective, with an activist take that provides people who use drugs with agency over their use by helping them detect and avoid unwanted substances. This paper presents data from an exploratory study of people's motivati…

  • A longitudinal study of behavioural outcomes following a visit to the Boom Festival 2018 drug checking service

    Helena Valente, Daniel Martins et al.ARTICLEDrugs Education Prevention and…2023

    Drug checking services (DCS) allow people who use drugs to submit drug samples for chemical analysis and provide feedback of results and counseling. Our study tested the validity of behavioral intention measures against reports of actual behavior and the adoption of protective behavioral strategies. DCS patrons at Boom Festival 2018 completed three surveys during the festival (pre-drug analysis 343 participants submitted 671 drug samples, post-dr…

  • Evaluation of a drug checking service at a large scale electronic music festival in Portugal

    Open AccessHelena Valente, Daniel Martins et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2019

  • Violência sexual e consumo de substâncias psicoativas

    Open AccessCristiana Vale Pires, Raquel Pereira et al.ARTICLEex aequo - Revista da Associação…2018References: 1

    Neste artigo, analisa -se a trade sexo feminino, consumo de substncias psicoativas em contextos festivos e a sua relao com situaes de violncia sexual. Atravs da reviso bibliogrfica e de dois grupos de discusso realizados com frequentadoras de contextos festivos e utilizadoras recreativas de substncias psicoativas (n=12), com idades compreendidas entre os 16 e os 46 anos e de classe mdia, foram identificadas vrias desigualdades de gnero que emerge…

  • The utility of drug checking services as monitoring tools and more

    Open AccessClaudio Vidal Giné, Mireia Ventura Vilamala et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2017

  • Check!ng

    Open AccessDaniel Martins, Helena Valente et al.ARTICLESaúde e Sociedade2015References: 11

    No contexto atual de proliferação de novas substâncias psicoativas (NSP) e de adulteração de substâncias psicoativas que circulam no mercado negro o Drug Checking é aqui encarado como uma estratégia major de redução de riscos e minimização de danos (RRMD). É um serviço que se tem vindo a afirmar como uma necessidade em termos de saúde pública, através da monitorização informal de mercados informais de substâncias psicoativas e emitindo alertas se…