A man has died after a suspected drug overdose at Australia's Pitch Music & Arts Festival. The 23-year-old was airlifted to Melbourne's Alfred Hospital in...
Drug Checking
The 23-year-old man died after being airlifted to hospital in Melbourne
The crucial UK drug checking non-profit is hosting a series of educational sessions beginning tonight
Eight of the nine hospitalised attendees of this past weekend's Hardmission festival were put into medically induced comas and given breathing tubes
"This on-site testing has saved lives and the absence of it puts lives at risk", Manchester nightlife figure Sacha Lord said
Fatboy Slim, Billy Bragg and Metronomy's Olugbenga Adelekan, as well as 30+ MPS, call the short-notice "disastrous decision" to add a special permit process for festival testing facilities "short-sighted and dangerous"
Trained testers were not allowed to operate in a last-minute u-turn that has sent shockwaves across the events industry
Nearly two-thirds of festivalgoers who learned their drugs did not match what they were sold as decided to dispose of the remaining substances
Statistics show that drug use deaths in England and Wales are at their highest level since records began
Service providers and users are protected from prosecution, but the sale, purchase, and possession of illegal substances remains a criminal offence
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to fully legalise recreational drug checking, marking a major victory for those advocating substance tests...