Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 3: Law Reform - Pill Testing

• Pill testing (Drug checking)
  By Campbell, Josephine, from Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2020

• Alcohol and Drug Foundation: Pill testing in Australia

• Alcohol and Drug Foundation: Pill testing facts

Jurisdictions with pill testing laws

• ACT Government: Pill Test: CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service 

• ACT Government: The Festivals Pill Testing Policy - A Guide for Event Organisers to Implement Harm Minimisation 

• Alcohol and Drug Foundation: An Australian First: Canberra’s Fixed Pill Testing Site

• Sydney Criminal Lawyers: “A Watershed Moment for Drug Policy”: Dr David Caldicott on the ACT Fixed Pill Testing Site

• New Zealand Government: Drug and Substance Checking Legislation Act 2020

Jurisdictions which do not yet have pill testing laws

• Brisbane Times: No pill-testing trial for Queensland music festival season (December 3, 2019)

• Brisbane Times: Queensland quietly doing pill testing groundwork (August 12, 2022)

• In Queensland: Pill testing on the cards for Qld music festivals

• Herald Sun (Melbourne): Greens reintroduce Bill to set up a two-year safe drug testing trial in Victoria (December 23, 2022)

• Herald Sun (Melbourne): Andrews gov’t shuts down fresh calls to launch pill testing trial as dangerous pills circulate (February 14, 2023)

• Sydney Criminal Lawyers: NSW Government Continues to Reject Pill Testing, Despite Deadly Consequences (February 17, 2023)

• The Australian: Prohibiting pill testing is ‘purely political’ (NSW)

• Daily Mail Australia: Why New South Wales will NOT be getting pill testing at music festivals - as police minister issues a warning to drug users (January 2022)

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General

• University of Queensland: Pill Testing: The facts

• Parliament of Australia:The pros and cons of pill testing 

• Royal Australian College of GPs: State of play: For and against pill testing

• The Medical Republic: The pros and cons of pill testing at festivals 

• University of Technology Sydney (UTS): Two perspectives on pill testing

• Man of Many: The Pros and Cons of Pill Testing

Pro

• Pill Testing Australia 

• Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Council Tasmania: Pill testing saves lives

• EXCELLENT ARTICLE: Harm Reduction Journal: ‘Worth the test?’ Pragmatism, pill testing and drug policy in Australia

• Harm Reduction Journal: Music festival attendees’ illicit drug use, knowledge and practices regarding drug content and purity: a cross-sectional survey

• Edith Cowan University: Pill testing won’t give people a ‘green light’ to use drugs - study 

Against

• Brisbane Times: Pill-testing 'would send wrong message', LNP convention hears

• Courier-Mail: Police union boss slams pill testing and highlights the need for more funding and resources

• SBS  News: Pill testing: 'It gives people a false sense of security'

• The Police Association of Victoria: Police Union boss hits out at 'bonkers' drug-testing proposal from the Victorian Coroner 

Police

• Courier-Mail: Police union boss slams pill testing and highlights the need for more funding and resources

• SBS  News: Pill testing: 'It gives people a false sense of security'

• The Police Association of Victoria: Police Union boss hits out at 'bonkers' drug-testing proposal from the Victorian Coroner 

Lawyers

• McNamara Law: Pill Testing at Music Festivals: From a Lawyers Perspective

• Sydney Criminal Lawyers: “A Watershed Moment for Drug Policy”: Dr David Caldicott on the ACT Fixed Pill Testing Site

• Sydney Criminal Lawyers: As the ACT Moves to Fixed-Site Pill Testing, NSW Police Minister Doesn’t Get It

Pill users

• See 'Pro' argument
• Royal Australian College of GPs: Two-thirds of Australians support pill testing at festivals: Survey

Parents/Families and the Public

• The Guardian: Parents of drug-overdose victims at odds over benefits of pill testing

• 9 News: Grieving parents call for national pill testing after son's death

• The Courier-Mail: Undying love fuels grieving parents’ push for pill-testing 

Government
See "Current Laws"

Insurance groups

• Insurance Business Australia: Groovin the Moo music festival cancels pill testing service after insurers pull out

Music groups

• The Music Architects: Pill Testing Urgency Stressed Ahead Of ‘Unbridled’ Festival Season

Drug and alcohol service providers

• Alcohol and Drug Foundation: Pill testing in Australia

• Public Health Association Australia: Public Health Association of Australia: Policy-at-a-glance  – Pill Testing Policy Position 

• Australian Medical Association: AMA formally backs supervised pill testing trials 

• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia: Pharmacists support pill testing

• Royal Australian College of Physicians: RACP writes to nation’s leaders: there is sufficient evidence to support pill testing trials 

• State and Territory Alcohol and Other Drugs Peaks Network: Position Statement on Drug Checking (including Pill Testing)