Items tagged with australia and drug checking
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
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