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Support for pill testing continues to grow
When the millions of Australians … who have used cannabis, ecstasy or cocaine over the past twelve months hear the Premier’s message that “there is no such thing as a safe illegal drug” and “just say no” they wonder what planet she is living on. Young people are not fools. They want us, as politicians, to “get real” about illegal…
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Crossbench to use numbers to pressure Victorian Government to introduce pill testing
Victoria’s diverse Upper House crossbench is demanding the Andrews Government undertake a trial of pill testing, and is vowing to make the issue a key matter in the Parliament. […]
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Greens MP admits to drug use in a bid to bring ‘honesty’ to pill testing debate
Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has admitted that she has “taken MDMA in my 20s and occasionally through my 30s and 40s” in what she says is a bid to bring “honesty” to the debate around recreational drug use in NSW. In an opinion piece written for the Herald, Ms Faehrmann told of a family history with legal and illegal drugs including a…
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Royal Australasian College of Physicians smack down Premier Gladys Berejiklian
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, which represents more than 17,000 physicians and paediatricians, has sent an open letter to NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian and her counterparts urging them to follow the lead of the ACT. […]
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As we debate pill-testing in Australia, how many lives could we be saving?
I hope Australia embraces pill-testing, just as it embraced the supervised injecting room. But we must act fast. How many Australians will die before we remember this significant part of our identity — that we are a gloriously practical people? […]
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Pill testing supporters rally in Sydney
“The failed war on drugs has killed our friends, family and others in our community for decades while politicians and police have wilfully ignored the mounting evidence that zero-tolerance drug policing does not work,” organisers said in a statement. […]
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‘Evidence backs pill testing trials’: physicians tell Berejiklian
Australia’s peak body for physicians have called on Premier Gladys Berejiklian to introduce pill testing trials at NSW festivals, telling her there is sufficient evidence to support the intervention. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians have written to Ms Berejiklian – and her state and territory counterparts – imploring her to reconsider her hardline stance against pill testing. […]
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How to navigate dinner conversations about pill testing
For those who care to argue back when confronted by someone opposed to pill testing over dinner, we have compiled an exhaustive (and exhausting) artillery of answers for you to put the arguments in their scientific resting place: […]
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NSW Coroner to investigate spate of music festival deaths
The NSW coroner will hold an inquest into the recent deaths of five people of suspected drug overdoses at music festivals across the state, with a public hearing to kick off next week. The announcement follows the death of a 19-year-old Central Coast woman on Saturday after she attended FOMO festival at Parramatta Park. […]
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Parents’ plea after daughter’s tragic drug death at FOMO festival in Sydney
“We encourage government to courageously take all active measures possible to reduce the risk, in particular, festival goers, through intensifying current initiatives as well as implementing other harm reduction strategies. Pill testing is only one measure. There is no safe level of drug consumption BUT, it is an opportunity for intervention.” […]
