Gold Coast Schoolies to have access to pill testing in effort to reduce harm

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Gold Coast Schoolies to have access to pill testing in effort to reduce harm
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Schoolies celebrations can be a first taste of independence for school-leavers and an anxious time for parents. So let's take a quick look at what a pill testing service means for school leavers on the Gold Coast.

Schoolies celebrations can be a first taste of independence for school-leavers and an anxious time for parents.

"Particularly where someone finds an unexpected substance in their sample, almost all of them will dispose of that," he says.Doctors plan to fight for pill testing at schoolies But he says if people are caught with a large amount of drugs and it looks like they are dealing drugs, police will enforce the law.Are drugs a big problem at Schoolies?"Alcohol up here is a bigger problem than drugs, but only so much as the behaviours that it does cause or can cause," he says.

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