What they found in the drugs: Canberra’s pill testing trial
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Show Notes
Back on July 19th, Australia’s first fixed pill testing site opened in Canberra’s city centre. The pilot program is running two nights a week for six months. Pill testing was one of the recommendations made by a coronial inquest into festival deaths. The team behind this latest site, called Harm Reduction Australia, has run a couple of trials of pill testing before at the Groovin the Moo festivals in Canberra.
We’re joined by Professor Malcolm McLeod, a chemist from the ANU and chemistry lead for CanTEST and Pill Testing Australia to find out how the testing went.
In today’s Briefing, we find out what was in the drugs, and how people reacted when the drugs they bought were not what they thought they were.
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