Comprehensive toxicology testing of emergency department (ED) presentations has become a prominent data source on novel psychoactive substances (NPS) …

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With pill testing, there’s two opposing factions with one common objective — for people to be safe. Can a positive path forward appear?

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The Victorian Pill Testing Service is a free, legal and confidential health service that aims to reduce drug-related harm through substance analysis and personalised harm reduction advice.

Detection of powerful nitazenes in samples from 60 sites a ‘red flag’ amid surging use to lace street drugs * Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaign * Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast Synthetic opioids a thousand times stronger than morphine and an animal sedative used to lace street drugs have been detected in Australia’s wastewater. The discovery has been described as a “red flag” and comes as the deadly class of synthetic opioids – nitazines – claims dozens of lives in Australia. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...