Will pill testing make drug taking safer? | Extra Minutes
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On this week's Extra Minutes podcast, Dimity Clancey and Serge Negus talk about the controversial drug harm reduction measure - pill testing, and why experts are adamant that it will save lives.
I did my 2 day first aid course with trainer that did pill testing and said that a few years ago when he was doing the pill testing in GC for schoolies. Many of the drugs were laced with fentanyl. And they stopped testing after the fact….????
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Sounds like enabling to me 🤷♀️. People are responsible for themselves. If they take drugs, there is more than enough information out there in 2026 for them to be aware that they are potentially taking something that could kill them. They take that pill or shoot that drug where ever, then they know the risks. Just because a pill comes in a box, endorsed by big pharma, with an expiration date and big long list of contra indications, doesn’t make that drug ‘safe’ safer, perhaps for the majority, doesn’t stop any person on a given day having a reaction to it, even if it’s been taken before. Drugs legal or otherwise is a lottery. If you seen me after I had taken an antibiotic that was prescribed and labelled as safe, you would think it was a bad batch. I’ve never been so sick in my life! Drugs, no matter what, is a lottery. A box and label or no box and no label, will change that, ever!
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Our Government has become so detached from reality these days on so many expectations we as Australian citizens hold them responsible for with our vote.
But when the failures from this lack of understanding result in the deaths of citizens from gunshots and overdoses as serious consequences that were clearly preventable if the action to do so was given more priority to do something earlier, then its time to abandon the status quo and start doing things differently because doing things differently may just save a life....
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Definitely the pill testing should go ahead as young people are going to take them regardless as thats what young people are doing and have been for years so if there is any measure to help save lives its a no brainer, look at all the fentanyl O/D's in America from young people takeing these party pills and they are laced so heavily with fentanyl its killing thousands at a fast rate ,lm not advocating young people its ok to take these pills but the truth is that they will as young people are risk takers ,so pill testing should definitely be available or many families will loose their young sons /daughters
@juliewilson2628People are going to take pills whether there is testing or not. And don't forget, a lot of people taking pills at music festivals are doing it for the first time. At least when there is pill testing, the local hospitals aren't swamped with people OD'ing on bad pills.
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