Victoria to trial pill testing, premier confirms

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Pill testing will soon be trialled in Victoria, the state’s premier has confirmed. Jacinta Allan made the announcement in a video posted to social media on Monday night. “I wanted to tell you here first: pill testing will be trialled in Victoria this summer,” she said. Allan said watching her two children grow up has impacted her stance on the issue.

” Paramedics responded to more drug overdoses at festivals in the first three months of this year than all of last year, Allan said. The stance is a step away from Allan’s predecessor Daniel Andrews who was consistently against similar trials in his decade-long tenure. In February 2023 he said he did not believe “you can take these drugs at any level and be safe”. Allan said pill testing can be a “simple and common sense way to save lives”.

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