Victoria's first pill-testing service is seeing high demand at the Beyond The Valley Music Festival. Thousands of festival-goers are utilizing the service to test the contents of illicit drugs they have brought to the event. The service, run by The Loop Australia, is open for overtime due to the continued influx of people seeking results.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It’s 10 minutes until the drug-testing tent at Beyond The Valley music festival is due to close at 7pm, but the small army of health workers and chemists are preparing to stick around for overtime. The beating sun is sinking, but the festival is just reaching its peak.
Thousands of young revellers – clad in bikinis, wraparound sunglasses and bum bags – are migrating down a dusty amphitheatre towards the thudding bass of the main stage, where they will dance through the night. Festival-goers migrate to the stages at Beyond The Valley music festival. The Age is not suggesting anyone pictured used drugs at the festival.There are at least a dozen punters in the waiting area at the testing site – ready to find out what’s in the illicit pills, powders and crystals they have brought to party for days into the new year. More are arriving, seeking results. “If people keep coming, then we’ll just stay open,” says Cam Francis, chief executive of The Loop Australia, the organisation running the service.The Age has been allowed exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Victoria’s first pill-testing service while it’s in full swing. There was a crowd of people waiting outside the facility on Saturday – the first day of the festival – before it had even opened its doors. By Sunday evening, when“They’re really taking to it quickly,” says Francis.after mounting pressure on the state government to act following a string of overdoses at music festivals last summer.Beyond The Valley, in its ninth year, is an obvious target for the service. It has a very young crowd – mainly in their teens and early 20s – and an openly celebrated drug culture among them. Hundreds carry around “doof sticks” – home-made signs on long poles with drug-themed jokes about doing MDMA, cocaine or ketamin
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