A fixed-site pill and drug testing clinic will open its doors in the ACT this Thursday in an Australian first.
The nation's first fixed-site pill and drug testing clinic will open its doors in the ACT on Thursday, in a bid to reduce the harm caused by drugs.The ACT government says the site is aimed at reducing the harm caused by drugs through "evidence-based health interventions"The CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service will be located in Canberra's CBD and will offer the free, confidential testing of drugs.
The clinic has been opened by the ACT government as part of a six-month trial and is backed by Pill Testing Australia and the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy.Potential drug users will have the ability to have their drugs chemically analysed at the fixed-site facility, which will also provide drop-in clinic amenities such as general, sexual and mental health consultations.
The process to have drugs tested takes up to 15 minutes and the clinic will be open to the public on Thursday day — between 10am and 1pm — and Friday night — between 6pm and 9pm — each week. The clinic — located in the City Community Health Centre at 1 Moore Street — will not confiscate any drugs it tests but will provide advice about potentially dangerous substances in illicit drugs and give potential users the opportunity to bin the drugs.While the service is the nation's first fixed-site pill testing clinic, the ACT has played host to pop-up pill testing at the
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