Today we're publishing SafeGuide — a multilingual interactive harm-reduction guide built by D'Ni57er for VEAEA. It's live now at app.veaea.org/harm-reduction.
The brief was simple. Most existing harm-reduction information is locked behind walls of jargon, only available in English, or only useful at a desktop computer at home — exactly the wrong shape for the people most at risk. SafeGuide is the opposite of that. It opens in a browser, installs as an app on your phone if you want, and reads in the language you actually speak.
What's in it
The guide covers the substances most often encountered at events and venues we work with: heroin, ketamine, LSD, MDMA, and the rest. Each one has plain-language information about effects, dosing, interactions, and signs to watch for. Nothing moralising. Nothing scolding. Just the information you'd want a friend to have.
It's translated into the languages our community actually moves between — not just English. The translations are reviewed, not machine-dumped.
Why we built it
VEAEA's mission is fair pay and real infrastructure for the electronic arts. Harm reduction is part of that infrastructure. Promoters, venue staff, and audiences all benefit from a community that's better-informed and better-resourced. SafeGuide is one piece of that.
It's free. It's offline-capable once you load it. It doesn't track you. It works on phones five years old.
What's next
SafeGuide is funded grant-by-grant. We're actively pursuing additional funding through the Alcohol and Drug Foundation Community Grants and similar programs to expand language coverage and add substance-specific drug-checking guidance. If you work in this space and want to collaborate, get in touch via the contact page.
If you find a problem, an inaccuracy, or want to translate it into a language we haven't covered yet, email info@veaea.org. The guide will keep improving.
Use it. Share it with people who need it. Pay your artists, look after each other.