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QLD – State first success
Managed by Pill Testing Australia, the event-based service at the festival drew in 257 festival-goers over the course of four days, offering crucial information about the substances they intended to consume. Pill Testing Australia medical lead David Caldicott hailed the festival a success and estimated drug samples from close to 10 percent of festival goers were tested by the service.…
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Queensland’s first festival pill-testing service finds ‘Canberra ketamine’ sold as MDMA
The Pill Testing Australia clinical lead David Caldicott said it was hard to know if the clinic saved lives in 2024, but pointed to the lack of a need for paramedics as a win for safety. […]
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Media Release – first drug checking at a multi-day festival: Pill Testing Australia at Rabbits Eat Lettuce QLD
“The success of QLD’s first pill testing service at the multi-day festival Rabbits Eat Lettuce (REL) would not have been possible without the leadership team”, comprising of Professor Malcolm McLeod (Chemistry Lead), Dr David Caldicott (Medical Lead) and Dr Penny Hill (Data Officer), said PTA’s Executive Officer Steph Tzanetis, who was the onsite Service Manager. […]
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Media Release from the Honourable Shannon Fentiman – QLD Minister for Health
Pill testing results show service’s importance to health and safety. […]
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7NEWS takes you inside Queensland’s first illicit drug testing tent
PTA runs Qld’s first ever pill testing service. […]
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Rabbits Eat Lettuce is the first multi-day festival in Australia to have pill testing. How will it work?
Five thousand partygoers will have the opportunity to get their illicit drugs tested for purity at the iconic “bush doof” Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival that begins on Thursday on Queensland’s Southern Downs. Pill Testing Australia’s David Caldicott says drug behaviours change depending on how long the party goes for. […]
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Queensland to introduce pill testing at Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival, where two people died in 2019
Pill Testing Australia executive officer Stephanie Tzanetis said drug checking was “very much something that the community wants”. She said Pill Testing Australia was excited to begin expanding more testing sites across music festivals. […]
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Victoria poll shows majority support for legalising pot
More than half (54 per cent) of 1511 Victorians over 18 who took part in an online survey late last year were in favour of decriminalising cannabis and creating a regulated market for personal adult use. […]
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Coroners plead for a drug testing trial
In January, Ms Allan said she had sought that advice after at least 10 people were taken to hospital following suspected drug use at festivals. “There are no current plans to change the policy setting on drug checking,” she said at the time. Harm Reduction Australia and Pill Testing Australia in November announced they formally offered to host a public…
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Joint Media Release – March 2024
In response to the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission (ACIC)’s recent National Waster Water Drug Monitoring Program 2024 Report, Family Drug Support (FDS), Keep Our City Alive (KOCA) and Harm Reduction Australia (HRA) call on the Premier, the Hon. Jacinta Allan to follow through the Victorian Governments’ 2020 commitment to establish an overdose prevention service in the CBD before further lives…
