Drug checking service opens at Sydney injecting room but NSW still blocking festival pill testing

Participants in Kings Cross pilot project to be surveyed to see if tests change the way they use drugs

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The first drug checking service in New South Wales will open at Sydney’s supervised injecting room after the government resisted calls to introduce pill testing at music festivals.

About 100 clients of the Kings Cross medically supervised injecting centre will be able to have samples of their drugs tested as part of a “time limited” research project that will run over the next four months.

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