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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Australia’s first fixed pill-testing clinic opens in Canberra

A man uses the Compact FTIR Spectrometer pill testing machine during a demonstration
The CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service in Canberra can give people information about anything they plan to take, and the effect it might have. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Alex Ross-King, 19, wanted to know more about the pills she was planning to take – but didn’t know who to ask.

She died of a drug overdose after drinking and taking MDMA before Sydney’s Fomo festival in 2019.

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