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...
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The crucial UK drug checking non-profit is hosting a series of educational sessions beginning tonight
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The tragedy is the third death in four months at the club
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"This on-site testing has saved lives and the absence of it puts lives at risk", Manchester nightlife figure Sacha Lord said
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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"
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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
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The Manchester promoter's Mandrake project shared the notice over the weekend
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The Loop has issued alerts about “Teddy Bear”, “SoundCloud” and “Ninja Turtle” pill
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The average strength of pills tested at last weekend's Parklife festival was 1.5 times that of the typical tablet
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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
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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...
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Three men and a woman were also arrested on suspicion of drugs offences
Greater Manchester Police are investigating the death of a man who was taken ill at The Warehouse Project in the early hours of Saturday, 25th...
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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...
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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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The DCMS has issued a report ahead of Britain's "compressed" summer season
The UK Government is being urged to support drug testing at festivals to increase safety following a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee...
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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...
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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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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...
Dashing hopes of fresh Mai Tais in the mud at this year's event...
In a move destined to raise eyebrows, Leeds and Reading Festivals have opted to ban pineapples for 2017, confirming that the fruit, once considered a...
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...
Drug safety campaigners are pushing for a change in how authorities deal with drug-use
A second person has died at Australia’s Stereosonic festival prompting calls for a change in how authorities deal with illicit substances.
The death of a...