Advocates of testing services say they minimise the risks posed by drugs.
An independent music festival in Cambridgeshire made headlines this weekend when it became the first UK event of its kind to facilitate drug-testing for attendees.
The Secret Garden Party allowed festivalgoers to test their illegal drugs as part of a 10-minute package of health and safety guidance.
More than 80 “substances of concern” were checked, with police approval, over the first day and a half of the event.
Organisers said a number of high-strength ecstasy pills were discovered, as well as “multiple samples whose contents had been misrepresented”.
But could such a facility be provided to festivalgoers here in Ireland?
Source: Catherine Healy, Newstalk.ie, 26/07/2016
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