Pill-testing gets the green light... in Queensland
The Briefing20 Mar 2023

Pill-testing gets the green light... in Queensland

Queensland will become the second jurisdiction in Australia to implement a pill-testing regime to test for purity and contamination in recreational drugs. The Palaszczuk government will roll out pill testing services, at fixed and mobile sites, to chemically test illicit drugs to check for the presence of potentially dangerous substances and chemical compounds, with the aim of changing the behaviour of users and reducing the risk of harm from drug use. Queensland is developing protocols around the operation of testing, off the back of successful trials conducted at festivals and a fixed site in Canberra.

In today’s Briefing, we speak to Juile Tam who lost her son after taking MDMA at a music festival and Rebecca Lang from the Queensland Network for Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies.

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