Pill Testing
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Family members of a 19-year-old woman who died after taking an unknown substance at the Sydney leg of FOMO Festival on the weekend have begged New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian to implement pill testing. Alexandra Ross-King died in Westmead Hospital on Saturday night, with her family by her side. Festival organisers said they were […]
A 19-year-old woman has reportedly died from a suspected overdose while attending the Sydney leg of FOMO Festival yesterday. According to a police statement, the woman was taken from the festival at Parramatta at around 6pm last night to Westmead Hospital but died later that evening. The statement also said that 146 people were searched, […]
A number of Australia’s biggest music festivals have called on state and territory governments to allow pill testing trials at local events, in an attempt to prevent more drug-related deaths. The newly-launched Australian Festival Association (AFA) — backed by representatives from the likes of Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival, Groovin The Moo and Laneway […]
Anti-lockouts activist group turned bonafide political party Keep Sydney Open are chucking one of their trademark rallies to demand action on pill-testing, following a string of recent festival deaths. “We have to put an end to the ignorance of this NSW government! It’s costing lives!” organisers wrote in an Instagram post announcing the move. The […]
Police conducting a drug dog operation at the Central Coast’s Lost Paradise Festival say punters are becoming more “sophisticated” with their drug smuggling techniques. Speaking with the ABC, Acting Superintendent Rod Peet has described some of the bizarre lengths that some attendees have gone to this year in a bid to keep their pills under […]
The national campaign for drug law reform, Take Control, is pleading with the NSW Government to make music festivals safer by reconsidering their staunch opposition to pill-testing, following yet another tragedy this weekend. A young man died and two other people have been hospitalised after taking an “unknown substance” at the Central Coast’s Lost Paradise Festival […]
Tragedy has struck at Lost Paradise Festival on the NSW Central Coast, where a young man has died and two other people have been hospitalised after ingesting an “unknown substance”. A 22-year-old man from Queensland was rushed to Gosford Hospital at around 8pm on Saturday but died a short time later, while a man and […]
Ya boi Osher Günsberg (FKA Andrew G) has just gone on the telly to take a wrecking ball to the arguments against pill-testing. As all rational, progressive thinkers already know (because of, you know, the scientific evidence) pill-testing saves lives. However, as we also know, the vast majority of geriatric conservatives who unfortunately still occupy […]
A 19-year-old man has died and three other people are in a critical condition in hospital following suspected drug overdoses at a hard styles festival at Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday night. Police say the teenager from Baulkham Hills was found at a train station near the Knockout Games of Destiny event — billed as […]
The creative director of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival has thrown his weight behind pill testing. As the state’s politicians continue to debate whether or not the life-saving drug analysis measures should be made legal, Leigh Carmichael has issued a call to all political parties to “stop playing politics with young Tasmanian lives”. “Everyone wants to […]
