It is of great concern to FFDLR that the Premier Gladys Berejiklian has taken such a negative stand on pill testing. Her reasons are that young people at music festivals should not be given a false sense of security. However, studies have shown that “The experience of testing and the accompanying harm reduction brief interventions produced a number of positive results in terms of participants’ self-reported drug harm reduction knowledge, their trust of health providers and other written sources of harm reduction information, and stated behavioural intentions regarding drug use.” [1]
It seems the NSW police continue to have the upper hand in what is best treated as a health issue.