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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 · Nov 6, 2024

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 · Oct 25, 2024

The yellow pill that kills: Red alert issued by CanTEST

Synthetic opioid drug '100 times stronger than fentanyl'.

The Canberra Times · Sep 10, 2024

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.

Pedestrian.tv · Nov 16, 2023

ACT government backs return of pill testing for Canberra festivals

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

The Canberra Times · Oct 4, 2023

Hope of pill testing return for Spilt Milk festival

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

The Canberra Times · Oct 2, 2023

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 · Apr 29, 2023

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 · Apr 14, 2023

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 · Mar 14, 2023

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 · Mar 2, 2023