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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Estel Farell Roig

'UK's first regular' drug testing service could be coming to Bristol

Bristol could become the first UK city to host drug testing services on a regular basis.

If plans are approved by Bristol City Council's cabinet, the city could host 15 free drug testing services over 12 months. The proposed service would offer users a chance to submit a sample of a substance and receive the results from a forensic analysis, detailing the content and purity of a given substance.

In 2018, a pop-up recreational drug testing service went to Stokes Croft for a weekend and that same year non-profit The Loop became the first publicly-available drugs testing service in any UK city when it piloted in Bristol. Then, in 2020, the University of Bristol starting giving students free kits to test their drugs.

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