Fresh calls for pill-testing after suspected drug overdose death at Victorian music festival Mar 11, 2024The Victorian government is being urged to reassess its stance on pill-testing after the death of a man from a suspected drug overdose at a weekend music festival. The 23-year-old was airlifted in a critical condition to the Alfred hospital in Melbourne from Mafeking near Ararat, in the state’s south-west, in the early hours of Sunday but later died.
NSW Health warns of opioid risk after people took heroin thinking it was cocaine or methamphetamine Feb 23, 2024The NSW health department has issued a drugs warning after 11 people who believed they were using cocaine or methamphetamine recently experienced an opioid overdose.
Emergency departments report spike in hospital admissions linked to illicit drug GHB or fantasy Feb 21, 2024Dr Green said that, without drug testing being made available to the public, it was too challenging to find out what was in a drug after a patient had suffered an overdose.
New drugs mean more risk of overdose. Experts say we need more pill testing now Feb 20, 2024Chemistry lead of CanTEST, Australia’s only fixed-site drug checking service, Malcolm McLeod told ABC RN’s Life Matters that “around 10 per cent to 15 per cent of samples [are] maybe not as expected”.
No way for Sydneysiders to test the secret threats in drugs that could send them to the hospital Feb 4, 2024Gino Vumbaca, president of drug safety organisation Harm Reduction Australia, said his website receives “at least two to three emails a day” from people who want to safely test the pills that they or their children have.