Items tagged with drug checking
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| Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? [23.10.2022] | Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. It’s a crisis that has been blamed on a wa ... |
| UK’s first regular drug checking service set to launch this month in Bristol [12.05.2022] | The UK's first regular drug checking service is launching in Bristol this month, delivered by non-profit harm reduction specialists The Loop in a new ... |
| ‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential [31.12.2021] | Fentanyl testing strips as well as the opioid-reversal drug naloxone (commonly known as Narcan) are becoming the sine qua non of the party scene, dis ... |
| Drug checking to be permanent after law passes third reading [24.11.2021] | Legislation confirming that such services can permanently continue, and expand, passed its third reading - replacing a temporary law that was set to ... |
| Germany moves to legalise cannabis in economy-boosting bid after Merkel departure [18.11.2021] | The political parties known as the "traffic light" coalition are pushing for a change in legislation meaning the sale of cannabis will be legal for c ... |
| Are your illegal drugs pure? New Zealand will check them for you [09.04.2021] | New Zealand has enshrined into law a one-year experiment allowing drug users to have illegal substances tested without penalty to ensure their authen ... |
| Leaked FBI report: Drug sellers practice harm reduction [02.12.2020] | The recognition that people who sell drugs can play a crucial role in reducing the harms caused by drug criminalization is not limited to reformers, ... |
| Portugal’s answer to the heroin crisis [22.04.2020] | After years of mounting overdoses, HIV infections and rampant heroin addiction, Portugal opted in 2001 for a daring experiment: The country decrimina ... |
| Landmark NSW inquiry condemns ineffective drug laws and calls for decriminalisation [27.02.2020] | A New South Wales government-commissioned special inquiry into drug use has slammed the criminalisation of drug users as a “profound flaw” in the sta ... |
| A quarter of street drugs are fake and dangerous to users [16.02.2020] | Almost a quarter of street drugs are not what users think they are, some being far more powerful and dangerous than expected, according to findings f ... |
| NSW coroner says punitive policing tactics increase risk of drug deaths and calls for reform [08.11.2019] | The use of high-visibility policing tactics such as drug dogs and “large scale” strip searching at music festivals “increases rather than decreases” ... |
| Enough evidence to support introduction of pill testing in NSW, inquiry told [23.09.2019] | A world expert has told an inquiry into the drug ice and other amphetamines, including MDMA (ecstasy), that there is "sufficient evidence" overseas a ... |
| The profile of festival drug takers might be different to what you expect [18.07.2019] | A NSW Coronial Inquest investigating a series of drug-related deaths at Australian music festivals has heard evidence of festival goers taking multip ... |
| 'Chinese Ecstasy' drug linked to 125 deaths has arrived in Britain, NCA warns festival goers [02.06.2019] | A new ecstasy-like drug produced in China that has been linked to at least 125 deaths is feared to have spread to Britain, the National Crime Agency ... |
| How the world’s oldest drug checking service makes high-risk pills “unsellable” [01.05.2019] | The Drugs Monitoring and Information System (DIMS) in the Netherlands can proudly claim to be the oldest drug checking service in the world. It began ... |
| Home Office gives green light to first drug testing clinic [24.02.2019] | The first drug-checking service licensed by the Home Office will allow users to have their illicit substances tested without fear of being arrested i ... |
| Nine pill testing myths [04.02.2019] | From politicians to the public, the same myths keep being rolled out about pill testing. They’ve been testing pills in 20 other countries for at leas ... |
| I'm 'coming out' about drugs: it's time get real about pill testing [21.01.2019] | As a politician I’ve made the difficult decision to "come out" in this way because the government’s zero-tolerance approach to drugs has not only bee ... |
| Overwhelming majority of voters support pill-testing – Guardian Essential poll [15.01.2019] | An overwhelming majority of voters in the latest Guardian Essential poll say they support pill testing in Australia. The survey of 1,089 respondents, ... |
| 'We're dealing with a black market': is taking pills becoming more dangerous? [15.01.2019] | Prof Alison Ritter, a public health academic from the University of New South Wales, agreed that there had been an “explosion” in new types of substa ... |
| Music festivals are offering to test the safety of people’s drugs, and police increasingly like the idea [04.01.2019] | For a long time, authorities at festivals in Australia and elsewhere almost entirely focused on preventing people from taking drugs in the first plac ... |
| New Zealand embraces pill testing as Australian politicians resist [03.01.2019] | As Australian politicians continue to rule out pill testing at music festivals, New Zealand appears to be embracing the controversial practice. The c ... |
| Police Minister Stuart Nash wants drug testing kits at all music festivals by next summer [02.01.2019] | Police Minister Stuart Nash wants to see all New Zealand music festivals kitted out with drug testing kits by next summer. This has been welcomed by ... |
| Testing drugs at festivals is ‘a lifesaver’, study finds [09.12.2018] | An alarming rise in drug-related deaths at music festivals can be countered by testing illicit substances onsite, according to the first academic stu ... |
| NCA's decision on pill testing betrays public trust [29.09.2018] | The National Capital Authority has blocked a proposal for pill testing at this year's Spilt Milk festival in Canberra. It was able to do this because ... |
| Britain's drug testing charity is ready to roll out in Australia [20.09.2018] | Pill testing at music festivals in Australia is inevitable, Britain's only drug-testing organisation says. Two people died from suspected drug overdo ... |
| Government won't 'stand in the way' of drug testing at festivals, says Home Office [09.07.2018] | The Home Office “would not stand in the way” of drug testing at clubs and festivals, it said. It follows calls from experts and campaigners for music ... |
| Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime [25.02.2018] | Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic ha ... |
| Plans for heroin to be prescribed to addicts in West Midlands [12.02.2018] | Doctors in the West Midlands could soon be prescribing heroin for addicts, who would be invited to inject themselves with clean syringes in drug cons ... |
| A huge step backward on opioids [24.01.2018] | The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic o ... |
| Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho ... |
| Testing of illicit drugs to be done at Australian event for first time [22.09.2017] | The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government has agreed to allow pill testing at a coming music festival, in an effort to reduce deaths and harm ... |
| We already know how to stop people dying from drugs – but the Government refuses to do it [02.08.2017] | Last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. More than half of these deaths involved an opiate, such as heroi ... |
| Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade [13.06.2017] | For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge ... |
| More fentanyl being found in MDMA, crystal meth in Victoria [12.06.2017] | When Victoria pharmacist Alain Vincent began testing local street drugs for the presence of fentanyl, he knew it would be found in heroin. He was sur ... |
| An experiment helps heroin users test their street drugs for fentanyl [16.05.2017] | Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is "similar to morphine but can be 50 to 100 times more potent," according to the National Institute on Drug Abus ... |
| Drug-testing at music festivals: Cocaine or concrete? [29.07.2016] | Backstage at many of Britain’s summer music festivals, suspicious pills and powders seized from tents are analysed by lab technicians. Usually it is ... |
| Ecstasy is getting stronger, drug testing clinic warns [03.05.2016] | The amount of active ingredients in ecstasy pills in the Netherlands has almost doubled in 10 years, according to the Trimbos addiction institute, wh ... |
| Pill testing trial to begin at Sydney music festivals, vows drug expert Alex Wodak [27.02.2016] | The Australian drug expert who pioneered the nation's first legal injecting centre is on a collision course with the Baird government and NSW Police ... |
| Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy [26.02.2015] | Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement about the failures of Canada's drug policy is mostly on point. It’s just the last bit he gets wrong: “I thi ... |
| New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation [31.08.2013] | On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, ma ... |
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