Drug purity has been put to the test at Australia's first fixed-site pill and drug testing clinic in Canberra's CBD.
abc.net.au/news/act-pill-drug-testing-results-revealed-mdma-heroin/101371644Drug purity has been put to the test at Australia's first fixed-site pill and drug testing clinic in Canberra.One sample believed to be methamphetamine was actually sugarThe ACT government launched the six-monthACT Directions Health Services Acting CEO Stephanie Stephens said the last month had shown that people would discard drugs that contained unexpected or dangerous substances.
Ms Stephens said 58 drug samples were collected by CanTEST, 18 of those samples were discarded after the owners were made aware of their contents. All six samples collected of heroin all returned a positive result with a 31-63 per cent purity recorded.
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