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Drug testing groups are ramping up their services outside of music festivals, all while the government seeks a permanent way for them to operate without fearing legal repercussions.

Drug testing likely to be offered at O-Week 17 Jan, 2021 06:15 PM 2 minutes to read The Otago University Students Association is in discussions with drug testing organisation Know Your Stuff to have testing available. Photo / NZH The Otago University Students Association is in discussions with drug testing organisation Know Your Stuff to have testing available. Photo / NZH Otago Daily Times Drug testing is likely at next months University of Otago Orientation Week events. The Otago University S...

One girl started convulsing, another was hyperthermic, after taking MDMA suspected to be laced with bath salts.

Drug checking group says most users wont take MDMA if its revealed to be eutylone 11 Jan, 2021 07:53 PM 3 minutes to read A drug harm reduction service says most people would refuse to take drugs they had purchased if they werent what they thought they were. The group Know Your Stuff said at festivals on New Years Eve 75 per cent of attendees that brought their drugs to be checked said that they would not take them if they turned out to be eutylone in place of MDMA. Read More Advertisement Fift...

I was too scared to move: Alarming reports of drug reactions at NYE festivals The crowd at Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne. Photo / File I was too scared to move: Alarming reports of drug reactions at NYE festivals Sat, 9 Jan 2021, 9:41AM Hundreds of New Year festival-goers have reported alarming symptoms – including paranoia, seizures, severe nausea and inability to sleep for days – after taking chemicals sold to them as MDMA, or ecstasy. The wave of bad reactions may be y...

I was too scared to move: Alarming reports of drug reactions at New Year festivals 8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 12 minutes to read By: Russell Brown Hundreds of New Year festival-goers have reported alarming symptoms – including paranoia, seizures, severe nausea and inability to sleep for days – after taking chemicals sold to them as MDMA, or ecstasy. The wave of bad reactions may be yet another consequence of the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic. The reports, nearly 1000 so far, have come i...

Supplied Tuari Potiki, departing chair of the NZ Drug Foundation, addressing the UN in New York on drug law reform. It took him seven months to get a visa for the visit, because he had a drugs conviction in his youth. OPINION: When the cannabis referendum failed despite being so close, my daughter, having watched me over decades fight for health-based, fair drug laws, wrote something on Facebook that has compelled me to write this as the departing chairperson of the NZ Drug Foundation. My tam�...

Photo: 123rf Police say officers will be at events across the country this holiday period and want people to know they are there to help. "It is important to remember that our primary focus is on the well-being and safety of all, ensuring revellers stay safe while also being able to enjoy themselves." Theyve offered the following advice to party safe: If you are planning on drinking, then its a good idea to have something substantial to eat before you start Have a glass of water between each al...

Cathinones can cause vomiting, paranoia and seizures — and they're "bloody everywhere" this summer, drug-checking service says.

A supply of MDMA. (file pic) Photo: 123RF The drug-checking agency, Know Your Stuff, said testers had seen a big jump in the amount of eutylone masquerading as MDMA this year. At least two people, including one having seizures, needed emergency medical treatment. Spokesperson Jez Weston warned that eutylone could cause vomiting, psychosis, convulsions and even death. He said it was impossible to tell the difference between the drugs by sight or smell alone, and no one should take a drug witho...