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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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MPs from across the political divide push Berejiklian on pill testing
A group of cross-party NSW MPs is urging the Premier to commit to a drug summit after the March election, warning that urgent action is needed to stop people dying at music festivals. In a letter sent to the Premier on Tuesday, Liberals’ MP Shayne Mallard, Greens’ MP Cate Faehrmann,…
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Here’s why doctors are backing pill testing at music festivals across Australia
The members of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians are the main clinical experts in the field of addiction medicine in this country. Together with the Australian Medical Association and many prominent members of the community with experience in this area we feel…
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‘Enough is enough’: Tide finally turning
It has been shot down so many times after numerous festival deaths, but immense pressure means the tide is beginning to turn on a pill testing. […]
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What is pill testing?
The Australian Medical Association. And Professor Alison Ritter, from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, lists several reasons to pilot pill testing. They include that pills exposed as dangerous have been found to leave the black market; ingredients of tested pills start to correspond to the expected ingredients over time;…
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Australian Festival Association launches, aims to unify strategies and make events safer
“We are establishing this industry group so that our members can develop informed and unified strategies in response to a range of issues, including event liquor licensing, drug policy, harm minimisation practise, building code compliance, green initiatives, user pays policing, event medical guidelines, and third party ticket sites. “Our aims are…
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New Zealand passes laws to make medical marijuana widely available
New Zealand’s government has passed a law that will make medical marijuana widely available for thousands of patients over time, after years of campaigning by chronically ill New Zealanders who say the drug is the only thing that eases their pain. The legislation will also allow terminally ill patients to…
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HRA: Pill testing can save lives
President Harm Reduction Australia Gino Vumbaca has told Sky News the tragedy shows the need for a national pill testing service to be rolled out. He says research overseas has shown giving partygoers information about the drug they are planning to take can ‘save lives.’ […]
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A Narcotics Officer Ends His War on Drugs
Kevin Simmers locked up hundreds of drug users—including his own daughter—while the opioid epidemic raged. Now he wants 24-hour treatment on demand. […]
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Voters back pill testing despite government’s opposition
Almost 60 per cent of NSW voters support pill testing at music festivals despite the state government’s refusal to consider it, exclusive new polling reveals one week after two people died at a dance party. […]
