NSW premier Chris Minns is ‘burying his head in the sand’ about the risks to party-goers who can’t access pill testing, say testing advocates
The letter pointed to NSW’s ice inquiry and a coronial inquest into six deaths at music festivals during the 2018-19 summer, both of which recommended the NSW government set up drug-checking services.
He said toxicology reports from the autopsies of young people who had died at music festivals had led to the coroner saying it was “extreme heat” and a lack of hydration that were responsible for their deaths, not the drugs themselves. The Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, who is pushing for legislative reform, said drug-checking services in the ACT and overseas were saving lives.
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