Late on Saturday night, as dance music blazed at Sydney Olympic Park, a small team of medical experts realised they had a “nightmare scenario” on their hands.
A raver at the HTID festival was in need of help. They’d taken what they believed to be the popular party drug MDMA. But their symptoms were serious and not typically associated with the drug. When they responded to naloxone – a medication designed to rapidly reverse the impacts of opioids – the specialists knew they had to act fast.
