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Man dies following suspected overdose at Pitch Music & Arts Festival amid extreme heatwave cancellation

The 23-year-old man died after being airlifted to hospital in Melbourne

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...

The Loop announces drug testing and harm reduction online training courses

The crucial UK drug checking non-profit is hosting a series of educational sessions beginning tonight

The Loop has announced a series of drug testing and harm reduction training courses. The drug checking charity and research group will be running 11...

Australian harm reduction groups call for nationwide pill testing after suspected festival MDMA overdoses

Eight of the nine hospitalised attendees of this past weekend's Hardmission festival were put into medically induced comas and given breathing tubes

Australian harm reduction organisations are urging the government to support national pill-testing programmes after nine people were hospitalised from presumed overdoses at Melbourne festival Hardmission...

Parklife and Warehouse Project founder threatens legal action over Home Office festival drug checking policy

"This on-site testing has saved lives and the absence of it puts lives at risk", Manchester nightlife figure Sacha Lord said

Sacha Lord, founder of Parklife festival and Warehouse Project, plans to legally challenge the UK government if it does not reverse the implementation of a...

Musicians and MPs call on Home Office to reconsider “shortsighted and dangerous” festival drug checking policy

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" 

Artists, music industry groups and more than 30 MPs are urging the government to reconsider the Home Office's short notice "disastrous decision" to implement a...

UK Drug checking

Trained testers were not allowed to operate in a last-minute u-turn that has sent shockwaves across the events industry

A Home Office requirement for drug-checking service providers at UK festivals to apply for a special licence has alarmed promoters and organisers as the summer...

Free drug checking service now available in Berlin

Participants can expect results after three days

A free and anonymous drug-checking service is now available in Berlin. According to a new report by German news outlet rbb, people in the city...

Drug-checking services at festivals improve attendee safety, study shows

Nearly two-thirds of festivalgoers who learned their drugs did not match what they were sold as decided to dispose of the remaining substances

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...

WHP

Statistics show that drug use deaths in England and Wales are at their highest level since records began 

A new report from London Assembly's Health Committee has recommended the widespread use of drug checking services in clubs. Published on 17th March, 'Reducing Drug...

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...