Testing festival goers’ pills isn’t the only way to reduce overdoses. Here’s what else works

Festival goers bring their phones. So why not use them to receive tweets about high-dose drugs in circulation, as the UK is doing? from Vinnikava Viktoryia/www.shutterstock.comThe NSW inquest into recent drug deaths at music festivals is due to start this week. So focus is turning to how to make music festivals safer by reducing drug-related incidents. We know that prohibition doesn’t work to reduce either harms or drug use. But what does? Read more: Australia’s recreational drug policies aren’t working, so what are the options for reform? How do drugs cause harm? Most illicit drugs used at festivals, including ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA), started out as relatively benign pharmaceuticals. MDMA is most commonly implicated in drug-related harm at festivals. Fatal and

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