NSW coroner may reportedly recommend pill testing at music festivals

A NSW coroner investigating the deaths of six young people at music festivals could reportedly recommend police drug operations be scaled back at the events.

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

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Pill testing could be introduced at music festivals in NSW and police may have to scale back drug detection operations under recommendations reportedly being considered by the NSW coroner.

Coroner Harriet Grahame has been overseeing an inquest into the deaths of six young people at music festivals between December 2017 and January 2019.

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