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pill testing
No Queensland pill testing trial over summer festival season
Queensland will not introduce a pill-testing trial ahead of the music festival season this summer. Health Minister Steven Miles previously said he would look “closely at the work currently under way in Canberra in relation to the use of pill testing as a harm-reduction strategy”. The ACT conducted two pill testing trials at the Groovin …
NSW government urged to introduce pill testing at music festivals
The NSW coroner has said there is “compelling evidence” to support pill testing at music festival because it would encourage “behavioural change” in young people. An inquest investigated the drug-related deaths of six young people aged 18 to 23 at the state’s music festivals over two summers. This included the death of 22-year-old Brisbane man …
