NSW rejects pill testing for summer festival

Experts behind Australia's second pill testing trial hope the tests assist medical staff treating any potential drug overdoses in future.

Experts behind Australia's second pill testing trial hope the tests assist medical staff treating any potential drug overdoses in future. Source: Facebook

Drug safety advocates, lawyers, and doctors are giving impetus to introduce pill testing grounds ahead of the summer festival season. Yet the NSW government debunked it.


In Australia, over the past two decades, deaths from accidental drug use have risen by 71 per cent, with most users unaware exactly what they are taking.

In an open letter petition to the Premier of New South Wales, advocates claim that testing the pill can save lives,

referring to recommendations from the state's Ice Inquiry as well as NSW and Victorian coroners, advocates from groups such as Unharm, aim to make drug use legal and safe in Australia by providing users with information about the drugs they take.

But the NSW Premier and the New South Wales Opposition stated that they were refusing the pill testing ground.

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