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Samantha Lock

Pill testing might have stopped festival deaths: study

Pressure is building on NSW and Victoria to bring in pill testing at major festivals. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Dozens of music festival drug-related deaths could have been prevented if harm reduction strategies such as pill testing had been in place, a study suggests.

The research has fuelled calls for Australia's two most populous states to introduce the measure in a bid to reduce the growing number of fatal incidents at festivals.

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