NSW deputy state coroner Harriet Grahame recently
recommended the implementation of pill testing and the removal
of drug dogs at music festivals to prevent people from taking
substances that can prove fatal, panic overdosing and preloading on
drugs to avoid police detection.
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian
came out on Wednesday with her government's response to
these life-saving recommendations made by an expert charged with
ascertaining why six young people died in drug-related
circumstances at festivals over the last two summers.
And what did Berejiklian announce? She's going to implement
amnesty bins at festivals, which are designed to be an
accompaniment to pill testing operations. They allow people –
who've had their drugs tested to see if they could prove fatal
– to throw them out.
