Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has admitted that she has “taken MDMA in my 20s and occasionally through my 30s and 40s” in what she says is a bid to bring “honesty” to the debate around recreational drug use in NSW. In an opinion piece written for the Herald, Ms Faehrmann told of a family history with legal and illegal drugs including a…

For those who care to argue back when confronted by someone opposed to pill testing over dinner, we have compiled an exhaustive (and exhausting) artillery of answers for you to put the arguments in their scientific resting place: […]

A group of cross-party NSW MPs is urging the Premier to commit to a drug summit after the March election, warning that urgent action is needed to stop people dying at music festivals. In a letter sent to the Premier on Tuesday, Liberals’ MP Shayne Mallard, Greens’ MP Cate Faehrmann, Labor’s Jo Haylen and independent MP Alex Greenwich warned the…

The members of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians are the main clinical experts in the field of addiction medicine in this country. Together with the Australian Medical Association and many prominent members of the community with experience in this area we feel this is the time for pill testing to be introduced,…

It has been shot down so many times after numerous festival deaths, but immense pressure means the tide is beginning to turn on a pill testing. […]

The Australian Medical Association. And Professor Alison Ritter, from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, lists several reasons to pilot pill testing. They include that pills exposed as dangerous have been found to leave the black market; ingredients of tested pills start to correspond to the expected ingredients over time; pill testing changes behaviour once the ingredients are exposed; and…

“We are establishing this industry group so that our members can develop informed and unified strategies in response to a range of issues, including event liquor licensing, drug policy, harm minimisation practise, building code compliance, green initiatives, user pays policing, event medical guidelines, and third party ticket sites. “Our aims are to make festivals safer for patrons, and reduce friction between…

New Zealand’s government has passed a law that will make medical marijuana widely available for thousands of patients over time, after years of campaigning by chronically ill New Zealanders who say the drug is the only thing that eases their pain. The legislation will also allow terminally ill patients to begin smoking illegal pot immediately without facing the possibility of…

President Harm Reduction Australia Gino Vumbaca has told Sky News the tragedy shows the need for a national pill testing service to be rolled out. He says research overseas has shown giving partygoers information about the drug they are planning to take can ‘save lives.’ […]

Kevin Simmers locked up hundreds of drug users—including his own daughter—while the opioid epidemic raged. Now he wants 24-hour treatment on demand.   […]