Premier Jacinta Allan has confirmed that pill testing will be trialled at Victorian music festivals and events this summer.
The premier announced the move in a social media post last night, saying it was “a common-sense way to save lives”.
Experts have been calling for urgent pill testing reforms after eight people were put into induced comas following suspected MDMA drug overdoses at Melbourne’s Hardmission Festival in January.
In the post, Allan said paramedics responded to more drug overdoses at festivals in the first three months of this year than during all of 2023.
“Let’s be clear, no drug is ever truly safe, but people deserve to know if that one pill will kill,” she said.
“And if someone’s asking for that information. And we have the power to give it to them, then why on earth wouldn’t we?
