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A collaboration between ANU, community and health organisations has established Australia's first drug checking services—protecting drug users, producing new information about drug markets, and evidence of effectiveness for this harm reduction intervention. Drug checking, also called pill testing, reduces the harms of drugs through analytical chemistry and health education. Drug checking is currently the only means by which drug users can obtain quality information on drug purity, adulteration, or substitution. As a stigmatised population who do not always engage in health services, drug checking empowers drug users to make more informed decisions about drug use and can help prevent harm, including overdose and death.

Operated by Directions Health Services in collaboration with Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy, Pill Testing Australia, and funding from ACT Health, CanTEST is receives technical support from researchers at the Research School of Chemistry, ANU.

To learn more about the CanTEST visit : https://directionshealth.com/cantest/