She stressed it was a simple and common-sense way to save lives.
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“No drug is ever truly safe, but people deserve to know if that one pill will kill,” Allan said. “If someone’s asking for that information and we have the power to give it to them, then why on earth wouldn’t we?”
Allan said she had also considered the issue as a parent.
“What if the worst happens, what if one of them doesn’t make it home and that’s every parents first nightmare,” she said.
The ACT trialled a mobile testing site at a music festival in 2018 and has since opened fixed pill-testing sites. Queensland opened its first permanent pill-testing centre in Brisbane in April.
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