Drug checking is a free service which tests the safety of recreational drugs. It's available in New Zealand from KnowYourStuffNZ, a volunteer organisation which we support.
Drug checking is harm reduction. It equips people who have a drug they intend to take with more objective information about it. It lets people use this information to reconsider how or even if they will take the substance they have.
01 December 2020
We are thrilled by Health Minister Andrew Little’s announcement providing legal certainty for drug checking this year.
19 December 2019
An independent evaluation of festival drug checking, announced today, should put to rest political squabbling about a law change
09 July 2019
We and our partners Know Your Stuff are about to trial a monthly drug checking clinic at the Drug Foundation’s Wellington office
01 March 2019
Imagine you’re managing a bar, and someone tells you they just saw a guy selling MDMA in the bathroom. What do you do?
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