A new study has found that drug-checking services at festivals improved the safety of attendees. The research by harm reduction and drug-testing charity The Loop...
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A number of UK festivals, including giant double-event Reading and Leeds, have announced plans to introduce safe drug testing spaces for punters this summer.
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The Loop found four sets of pills in circulation at Parklife that looked like the same batch, but all were made with different drugs
Drug testing charity The Loop has issued a warning to UK clubbers about identical-looking pills which actually contain different chemical substances.
Scientists testing drugs at...
New app is making clubbing safer...
Unified is the new mobile app that let's you keep track of your pals in a nightclub. The app, that works using your phone's Bluetooth network...
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Local authorities in Sydney have been trying to shut it down...
An Australian politician has put forward a proposal to relocate the Defqon 1 festival to Canberra from its current Sydney base.
The move comes in...
“If permitted to re-open, the club will operate to a gold standard”...
fabric nightclub has submitted evidence to court ahead of its licence appeal hearing, which is set to take place on Friday 28th November at Highbury...
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Nearly two-thirds of festivalgoers who learned their drugs did not match what they were sold as decided to dispose of the remaining substances
It was run by The Loop charity at the Cambridgeshire festival...
Secret Garden Party became the first UK festival to introduce on-site drug testing for festival goers at the event over the weekend (22nd-24th July), allowing...
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Three more festival-goers remain in critical condition...
Two people have died after attending Sydney, Australia festival, Defqon.1.
23-year-old Joseph Pham and a 21-year-old woman were pronounced dead at Nepean hospital after having...
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The summer of 2021 has seen a perfect storm of drug-related risks hit the UK dance scene: from an abundance of first-time ravers who turned...
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After the recent tragic deaths of two people at Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth, the issue of drug safety testing has been thrust into the spotlight...
The whole point about harm minimisation is admitting that people are always going to take drugs, whatever anyone in authority says or does — so...
Farringdon club will no longer be required to use sniffer dogs & ID scanning
Fabric has won its appeal against additional security measures imposed by Islington council on its license.
Last December, the council voted to add a number...
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Award-winning organisation The Loop is partnering with the local authority, Bristol Drugs Project, and People's Republic of Stokes Croft in a huge step forward for harm reduction in Britain
Was the famous club's fate already sealed?
What happened at Islington Town Hall on Tuesday night (Sept 6th) was not a hearing, for you cannot hear when you refuse to listen —...
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Free and easy access to drinking water at clubs is crucial for ravers' safety, but some venues remain insistent on charging prices that are prohibitively...
Water is a human right, essential to our daily survival. In places where the human body is subjected to excessive heat, exercise, and dehydration —...
The UK capital is making major strides...
Pretty much the whole of clubland was appalled when Fabric had its license revoked a few months back — after all, if Fabric could be...