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Time To Test: The Festival Drug Report – Part II
Go to a festival this summer, and drugs will never be far away. As the UK festival season gets underway, we asked Professor Fiona Measham to fill us in on this year’s festival drug trends, and what could be done to reduce harms resulting from drug use at festivals.
[Wired] The UK's radical club drug safety experiment is working – and now it's going high-tech
In the last two years, UK festivals have started to offer people the chance to check out what's really in their drugs. Now, advances in this emerging field could save even more lives.
[The Independent] I spent my weekend testing drugs at a festival – and I provided a service everyone should have access to
In small corner of a field, we demonstrated something fundamental: if you treat people who want to use drugs with respect, they will respond to the advice given to them sensibly