harm reduction

The Loop is urging UK festivalgoers to take caution this summer as recent testing has found MDMA pill strength has "significantly increased". The UK drug...

UK-based drug safety and harm reduction charity The Loop has unveiled plans for an online safety training session focused on MDMA. Scheduled to take place...

Drug testing and harm reduction organisation The Loop is putting on an online training course about current drug use at music festivals and events later...

Drug testing will restart at festivals across the UK this summer, after controversial licensing laws saw reduced services in 2023. In a statement published last...

A new initiative, Safer States, has been introduced in the UK to address drug safety and harm reduction in nightlife settings. Launched as a collaborative...

The current UK drug market is in "crisis" and could escalate to a "fentanyl-style epidemic", according to new warnings from UK harm reduction and drug-checking...

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

A new harm-reduction organisation focused on keeping nightlife safe has launched in Brooklyn. Designed around the specific needs of the club community, SafeRaveNYC will offer...

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...

A teenager has died after attending a party at Glasgow’s SWG3 club on New Year’s Day. After falling ill at the venue, the 18-year-old woman...

A warning has been issued over high-strength "Silver Punisher" ecstasy pills which were discovered at a UK venue last weekend. The tablets have been identified...

A free drug-checking programme implemented in Berlin has revealed that almost half of the samples tested merited a “warning” status. A total of 428 samples...

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...

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...

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...

The American Food & Drug Administration has approved overdose-reversing drug naloxone for sale in the US without a prescription. Best known in the nasal-spray form...

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...

New York City has passed legislation that aims to prevent opioid overdose deaths in the city's bars and clubs. Titled Intro 56, the bill will...

UK harm reduction group The Loop is warning festivalgoers over pills in circulation in the UK after being detected at Secret Garden Party this past...