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Victoria’s first fixed pill-testing service will be in Fitzroy.

Inner-city site picked for state’s first pill-testing centre

The free centre will operate from August as the Allan government expands its rollout of promised drug reforms and fears rise over deadly synthetic opioids. 

  • Kieran Rooney

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Queensland’s pill testing sites closed in April. A report evaluating their efficacy was completed last week, but the LNP won’t say if it will be made public.

Advocates warned people would die. Now we know someone has

An independent evaluation of Queensland’s now-closed pill-testing services was completed last week. There are many reasons why the LNP should make it public.

  • Courtney Kruk
The NSW drug checking trial was announced in December following interim advice provided by the co-chairs of the state’s drug summit.

The alarming letter that made the premier change his mind

The NSW pill testing trial was launched after an urgent warning about a deadly synthetic drug 100 times more powerful than heroin in the state.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
The state’s first permanent pill-testing sites will close from April 4.

Pill testers say people will die as Qld service forced to close

The group behind two south-east pill-testing sites said they picked up extremely potent synthetic opioids three times since November – including last Friday.

  • Courtney Kruk
Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says the cost of hiring police for NSW festivals is 12 times that of Victoria.

Police should back off drug users, says report

The final report from NSW Labor’s Drug Summit was published on Thursday.

  • Frances Howe
The Queensland government has released a tender calling for a provider to run its pill testing service.

Pill-testing scrapped as deadly opioid emerges

A state government has been slammed for abandoning permanent pill-testing clinics after extremely potent synthetic opioids were found in Australian wastewater for the first time.

  • Savannah Meacham
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NSW Government’s pill testing trial site at the Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong.

Long-overdue pill testing trial a welcome start

Other Australian jurisdictions are already looking beyond festivals as the best place to provide drug-checking services.

  • The Herald's View
Wollongong’s Yours and Owls festival.

First NSW music festival to allow pill testing revealed

The announcement marks a major win for drug reform advocates who have long called for pill testing in the state. 

  • Michael McGowan
Signs to the pill-testing service.

Victoria’s first pill-testing clinic is due to close for the day. But the revellers just keep coming

As the sun sinks and the festival reaches its peak, a steady steam of young people line up with illicit pills, powders and crystals for testing.

  • Rachael Dexter
Beyond the Valley music festival.

Festival-goer overdoses on first day of Victorian pill-testing trial

Paramedics were called to the Beyond the Valley festival after a man in his 20s suffered a drug overdose.

  • Rachael Dexter and Marta Pascual Juanola

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