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WHY WE DO IT

Drug checking services have been successfully operating in other countries around the world for decades.
Around 3.4 million Australians used drugs in the past 12 months. Right now, they have no reliable way of knowing how potent these drugs are and what they might contain. When people can’t get the information they need to make informed decisions, harm, hospitalisation and even death can result.
Multiple stakeholders stand to benefit from the implementation of drug checking services, as described below.
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