The roadside drug testing that was meant to roll out next week has been rolled back. Transport Minister Kiritapu Allen confirmed the postponement last night, saying “”Police have advised that through their process to identify the appropriate technology to carry out testing to a level of accuracy that can be used at the roadside, itContinue reading “Roadside drug testing postponed”
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Wendy in the New Years Honours
People have said that Wendy deserves a medal – guess what just happened? Wendy started @KnowYourStuffNZ back in 2015. It was underground af. She was prepared to be arrested for trying to keep people safe. We don’t have any pictures of the early days, coz underground. Here’s our first picture – Wendy (& Samuel Andrews,Continue reading “Wendy in the New Years Honours”
Drug checking services receive public funding ahead of this summer’s busy season
KnowYourStuffNZ is grateful to receive public funding to support our drug checking service, announced today by the Minister of Health. Aotearoa New Zealand is the first nation to have fully-legal and publicly funded drug checking. We look forward to continuing our service at festivals and public clinics this summer and on. We also appreciate thatContinue reading “Drug checking services receive public funding ahead of this summer’s busy season”
High Alert Warning: Unwashed Poppy Seeds
Poppy seed tea sounds relatively harmless, right? Except it’s really not if you get the wrong kind of poppy seed. Unwashed poppy seeds found in regular poppy seed supply have caused acute opioid toxicity hospitalisations in Victoria The poppy seeds in question are being recalled in Aotearoa and Australia, but we’re throwing up a redContinue reading “High Alert Warning: Unwashed Poppy Seeds”
We’ve updated our interactive data app
Rejoice, researchers! Our interactive data app has been updated! For those of you new to the app, you can use it to go through the data we’ve harvested from all of the substances we’ve tested since 2016. National and international researchers have used it to help write reports about the effectiveness of harm reduction measuresContinue reading “We’ve updated our interactive data app”