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SA: Push for local pill testing
As South Australia nears the summit of our summer calendar of sweltering music and arts festivals, one Greens politician is encouraging the State Government to consider setting up a trial clinic that would test drugs and ensure party peoples’ safety. […]
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Melbourne’s injecting room delay puts lives at risk as heroin overdoses spike in CBD
Stalled progress on the city’s second safe-injecting facility is heaping pressure on community health professionals […]
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Canberra’s Free Pill-Testing Service Shows Most Ket Isn’t Ket
“There’s a storyline that drug users don’t care and they’re reckless and don’t give a shit about their own health, but it’s just not true.” […]
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Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement
HRA Submission to Inquiry into Australia’s illicit drug problem: Challenges and opportunities for law enforcement. […]
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ACT extends confidential pill-testing service CanTEST as evaluation shows most users discard tainted drugs
“The lack of pill testing services outside Canberra is an ongoing tragedy for far too many people and families, and begs the question of how much more evidence is required for these services to be established,” Mr Vumbaca said. […]
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We’ve detected a potent opioid in Canberra. Here’s what we know about it
Australia’s first government-sanctioned drug-checking service CanTEST has issued its inaugural ‘red alert’, the highest level of warning, following the detection of metonitazene in a yellow pill masquerading as the pharmaceutical drug oxycodone. We should be very worried about this drug’s emergence in Australia. […]
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Red alert issued over ‘dangerous drug’ detected in Australia. Here’s the warning for festivalgoers
The ACT government has released the first ever ‘red alert’ over a drug detected through Australia’s first fixed pill testing site. […]
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What’s in the drugs that are being tested at Australia’s first fixed-site pill testing clinic in the ACT?
A total of 500 samples have been tested at CanTEST in Canberra’s CBD since it opened in July as a drug-harm minimisation bid from the ACT government. […]
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World Pride 2023 & Pill Testing
HRA Letter to NSW Premier to approve Pill Testing Australia request to provide pill testing services at World Pride 2023 events in Sydney Letter-to-NSW-Premier-re-World-Pride-Pill-Testing-Dec-2022Download […]
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Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds
New public health research says Australia’s prohibition approach to marijuana is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy […]
