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Test Parliament's wastewater to check drug use there, says leading doctor

New study shows Canberra has high opioid use - so where's it coming from?

The Canberra Times

ACT's drug overdose deaths double, as demand for pill-testing is 'insatiable'

Twenty people died of suspected opioid overdoses this year.

The Canberra Times

The yellow pill that kills: Red alert issued by CanTEST

Synthetic opioid drug '100 times stronger than fentanyl'.

The Canberra Times

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Drug with 'no safe level of use' found at Canberra testing clinic

The opioid is 25 times more potent than fentanyl.

The Canberra Times

Drug testing in Canberra reveals three recreational substances not previously seen in Australia

CanTEST facility also finds more than half of drugs tested were not what user expected, with ones similar to MDMA and potentially fatal ‘bath salts’

The Guardian - AU

Call to expand drug tests after three new drugs discovered in Canberra

'More pill testing sites across Australia means more lives saved.'

The Canberra Times

Groundbreaking research shows stark gender divide in drug deaths

Study into music festival drug deaths reveals unnecessary tragedy.

The Canberra Times

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Experts Have Renewed Calls To Legalise Pill Testing: Here’s How It Works & Where Things Are At

The Greens have renewed their calls for free pill testing, in an urge to the Victorian Labor Government to take up an offer to establish a free pill testing trial.

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ACT government backs return of pill testing for Canberra festivals

Plans to expand opening hours for city-centre pill testing centre.

The Canberra Times

Hope of pill testing return for Spilt Milk festival

Negotiations in final stages for pill testing to return at Canberra festivals.

The Canberra Times

Seven psychoactive drugs detected in Australian wastewater for the first time

Drugs have previously been detected in other research but wastewater results suggest increasing consumption

The Guardian - AU

Canberra's Groovin the Moo music festival will again be without pill-testing, as insurance becomes 22 times more expensive

Canberra's Groovin the Moo was the first Australian festival to offer pill-testing, but the service is likely to be scrapped at this year's event due to skyrocketing insurance premiums.

ABC News

Tasmanian government unmoved on pill testing despite drug warning to Panama festival-goers

A warning from the stage of a Tasmanian music festival for punters to "not take recreational drugs" as a precaution following a death at the event has again sparked calls for an introduction to pill testing — but the government is not budging.

ABC News

Australia is about to legalise MDMA and psilocybin for medicinal use. So how will it work?

Just three months out from the legalisation of psychedelic medicines for mental health treatment, questions remain among experts about exactly how the drugs will be administered.

ABC News

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What is found in illicit party drugs and how pill testing will work in Queensland

Queensland will be the second jurisdiction in Australia to provide illicit drug testing, here's how it will work and what chemist are finding hidden in pills.

AAP

Queensland the first state to roll out pill testing

The clinical lead behind Canberra's community drug-checking site has lauded Queensland for introducing pill testing to reduce harm.

The Guardian - AU

Dominic Perrottet’s hardline stance on drugs is ‘magical thinking’, says pill testing advocate

After the death of 26-year-old man at Sydney music festival, health expert says NSW premier’s unwavering stance is unrealistic

The New Daily

World-first: Magic mushrooms and ecstasy get the thumbs up for clinical use

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved the use of magic mushrooms and ecstasy for mental health treatment.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for treatment-resistant mental illnesses

From July, authorised psychiatrists will be able to prescribe the drugs for post-traumatic stress disorder and severe depression

The Canberra Times

'Nothing we can do': Why festival pill testing ended

Insurers are refusing to cover festival pill testing, and the ACT government can't do anything about it.

ABC News

Australia's first fixed pill testing service CanTEST discovers new drug, dubbed 'CanKet'

Australia's first fixed pill testing site has discovered a new recreational drug, similar to ketamine, not seen in the country before.

AAP

Pill-testing scientists uncover new drug

Canberra scientists have located a ketamine-like substance, in what could be the first time the new recreational drug has been discovered.

The Canberra Times

New drug detected at ACT fixed pill testing site

The drug is a ketamine-like substance.

ABC News

Calls to expand Canberra's pill-testing regime to include cannabis grown in backyards

With cannabis now decriminalised for personal use in the ACT, there are growing calls by health professionals to examine which varieties of plants are being grown and how Canberrans are using them.

Newcastle Herald

An Australian-first pill-testing facility checked 58 samples in its first month, here's what it found

The fixed-site pill-testing centre is the first in Australia.

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