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== Reception == Due to the subject matter presented on Erowid.org, the site has drawn praise and criticism from both the media and medical officials. Edward Boyer, an emergency-room physician, and toxicologist, while admitting that Erowid has a plethora of useful information, once argued the site may cause more harm than good to potential drug users.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/23/features-davis.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050324095519/http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/23/features-davis.php |author=Davis E. |title=Don't Get High Without It |publisher=LA Weekly |archive-date=2005-03-24 |date=2004-04-30 |access-date=2012-05-31}}</ref> Anthropologist Nicolas Langlitz argued that Erowid also sometimes serves as a mechanism of postmarket surveillance or [[pharmacovigilance]] in the realm of illicit and experimental substances.<ref>{{citation |author=Nicolas Langlitz |s2cid=7513456 |title=Pharmacovigilance and Post-black Market Surveillance |journal=Social Studies of Science |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=395β420 |date=2009-06-01 |doi=10.1177/0306312708101977 |pmid=19848184 }}</ref>
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