In its first two years, Canberra's fixed drug checking service has found meth in a counterfeit diet pill and a synthetic opioid thought to be 25 times stronger than fentanyl.
In its first two years, Canberra 's fixed drug checking service, CanTEST, issued 20 community notices regarding unexpected substances and identified four previously undetected substances.
The service's two-year report said it had seen an increase in the mean purity of the more than 3,000 samples presented to the service since its launch in July 2022. The service has issued 20 community notices about unexpected or concerning substances, including three detections of nitazenes, which are extremely potent synthetic opioids that carry a high risk of overdose.Canberra fixed-site drug checking service CanTEST issued 20 community notices about unexpected or concerning substances in its first two years of operation.
CanTEST provided 4,041 health and AOD brief interventions in the first two years of operations, and also provided 225 nasal naloxone sprays, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, to clients for free in that time. "Drug checking and the provision of harm reduction information saves lives, so increased access to services can only benefit the community."
"It has altered the trajectory of thousands of young people who use drugs and paved the way for other jurisdictions to take the plunge."ACT Minister for Population Health Emma Davidson said CanTEST had reduced drug-related harm and helped many Canberrans during its first two years of operation
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