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2022 Data reveals startling results: Only 57% of tested drugs Matched peoples expectations, with 33% containing other drugs and 12% containing unidentified substances.

Drug checking services will be available at Auckland stadiums for the first time from Friday, following a law change last year. Nearly 295,000 people are expected to attend spring events at Auckland stadiums over the next few months. Having drug checking services available is a logical way to reduce drug harm and help keep people safe.A KnowYourStuff report found that...

Aotearoa, New Zealand permanently legalised drug checking on November 23, by passing a bill to let a pilot program performing the harm reduction service at festivals continue and expand its operations. The new law will take effect December 6.Aotearoa is the first country in the world to have explicitly legal drug checking. Here at MindFuel we welcome this news.Sources: Filter,...

A warning has been issued by New Zealand drug testing organization Know Your Stuff after testing at recent events found more than half of drugs purporting to be MDMA actually contained dangerous cathinones, research chemicals which are often referred to as bath salts. Dubbing this the "summer of cathinones", Know Your Stuff's Dr Jez Weston said there has been a...

In what can only be described as a 'drug harm maximization' approach, Dr Tom Mullholland writes for Stuff that "event drug testing sends the wrong message" and drug users should instead adopt a "just say no!" approach. Dr Tom rants on that "drug testing sends a message that taking drugs is OK and its not" and that "Drugs are illegal...

The first ever batch of nationwide wastewater drug testing across New Zealand has revealed that Methamphetamine is our most popular illicit drug. Police on Tuesday released the results of three months of testing (November to January) for Cocaine, Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine and MDMA (Ecstasy) at 37 wastewater plants capturing 80 per cent of New Zealand's population. Methamphetamine came out on...