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DIY pill testing – is it better than nothing?

  • Written by David Caldicott, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Australian National University
imageDrug consumers are using DIY kits in an attempt to find out what substances they're ingesting – but these rudimentary kits won't paint a full picture. Retinafunk/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The latest spate of drug overdoses in Queensland has fulfilled the predictions of many health experts in Australia of a summer of multiple overdoses of unknown...

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