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!!**DRUG ALERT**!! (Melbourne/Naarm, Victoria, and VIC wide)

!!**CO***NE adulterated with opioid PROTONITAZENE**!!
A white powder sold as co***ne in Melbourne has been found to contain the potent synthetic opioid 'protonitazene'.

There have been recent serious harms in Melbourne/Naarm associated with a 'white powder' sold as CO***NE that contained the potent opioid PROTONITAZENE. The product appears to produce strong adverse effects such as loss of consciousness, respiratory depression, and life-threatening hypoxia. (lack of oxygen in your blood) Protonitazene is faster acting and is much stronger (100x) than he**in.

It is important for everyone- REGARDLESS of the substance you are planning to take- to CARRY NALOXONE. **CARRY ON YOU!!- not keep in a cupboard at home. It could mean the difference between life and death for someone.

Naloxone is a FREE, easy-to-use, easy to get medication that can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose – it is safe to use even if you are not sure whether someone has taken opioids.
HRVic does FREE naloxone administration training EVERY 1st of the month.

Naloxone can be accessed at HRVic's NSP and at participating pharmacies, other needle and syringe programs and from the medically supervised injecting centre.
You can find an approved naloxone provider on the Take Home Naloxone program webpage. (https://www.health.vic.gov.au/aod-treatment-services/victorias-take-home-naloxone-program)

Protonitazene is one of the many NITAZENES that have been circulating throughout Australia over the past couple of years.
Read more about the types of Nitazenes and their effects in the latest WHACK magazine OUT NOW at your local NSP.

If you are an HRVic Member and have not yet received a copy in the mail, email us at [email protected] to UPDATE YOUR MEMBERSHIP.
If you have any questions or want more info visit the Dept of Health alert : https://www.health.vic.gov.au/drug-alerts/co***ne-adulterated-with-protonitazene

or HRVic's Overdose page on our website: www.hrvic.org.au/dope
Be safe out there!

Do you use ecstasy or other psychostimulants when you party?

The Burnet Institute wants to hear about your experiences for the 2024 Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS).

The interviews are private and confidential, and you’ll receive $40 for your time.

If you are interested, please contact 0478 579 215 or email [email protected]

For more info and results from previous years:
https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/node/301000112

Food Recall

Hoyts Food Manufacturing Pty Ltd is conducting a recall of its poppy seeds, sachet packet and PET jar (Batch Codes: 28622, 29322, 29822 & 29922) due to the potential presence of a chemical (thebaine) due to unsafe poppy seeds entering the food supply.

The products have been available for sale at Coles & Woolworths nationally.

Food products containing thebaine may cause illness if consumed.

Severe poisoning soon after ingestion has occurred in some people who have consumed large amounts of poppy seeds.

Consumers should not eat these products and should return to the place of purchase for a full refund and safe disposal. Any consumers concerned about their health should seek medical advice.

For further information, please see our website: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/industry/foodrecalls/recalls/Pages/Hoyts-Poppy-Seeds.aspx

❗ DRUG ALERT- KETAMINE MIS-SOLD ❗
White powder, sold as ketamine.
This powder may contain 3HO-PCP.

🔬 NOVEL DISSOCIATIVE DETECTED:
3-Hydroxyphencyclidine
💊 May take 20-40 minutes to take effect and last from 3-4 hours. Several people have sought emergency medical assistance due to the severity of the dissociative effects.
If you experience delayed or unexpected drug effects, do not take more.

REDUCING RISKS:
✅ Be wary of adulterated substances
✅ When using any drug, always make sure you are in a safe environment with people you trust
✅ Start low, go slow
✅ If you experience adverse effects, seek help immediately
🚑🚑 CALL 000 🚑🚑

ℹ MORE: https://www.health.vic.gov.au/drug-alerts/3-hydroxy-pcp-is-being-sold-as-ketamine

We will have more info soon.

CanTEST - The fixed-site drug checking trial in Canberra have identified something quite unique, and cheekily labelled it 'CanKET'

Make sure to follow Pill Testing Australia for updates and search for CanTEST on Instagram for warnings and further information.

Chemistry lead at CanTEST, Associate Prof Malcolm McCleod spoke about the trial at a recent Entheogenesis Australis - EGA - Planting Psychedelic Seeds webcast. Check them out for deeper dives into topics like this.

🌱 And this: On the first weekend of December, EGA will be hosting Garden States 2022 - Featuring David Holmgren, Margaret Ross, Keeper Trout

‘Canberra ketamine’: new recreational drug discovered at Australian pill-testing service ‘As far as we’re aware, this is the first detection of a new drug by a drug-checking service anywhere in the world,’ says professor

Colombia's new president everybody.
“The opinion of power has ordered that co***ne is poison and must be persecuted, while it only causes minimal deaths from overdoses … but instead, coal and oil must be protected, even when it can extinguish all humanity."

Colombia's President slams 'addiction to irrational power' and calls to end war on drugs in fiery first UNGA speech | CNN In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, recently elected Colombian president Gustavo Petro issued a fiery speech that recalled some of his campaign themes, slamming the war on drugs as a failure and accusing the global north of turning a blind eye to the destruction o...

Looking forward to the NUAA NSW Peers And Consumers forum for many good discussions.

From our friends at CAHMA and The Connection in Canberra, and from the new pill testing centre CanTEST, a warning about an adulterated sample.

REDUCING RISKS:
✅ Be wary of adulterated substances
✅ When using any drug, always make sure you are in a safe environment with people you trust
✅ Start low, go slow
✅ If you experience adverse effects, seek help immediately
🚑🚑 CALL 000 🚑🚑

🌵🌿Check out this beautiful new resource and Entheogenesis Australis - EGA - Planting Psychedelic Seeds's new website!🍃🌱

EGA’s Entheogen Combination Matrix lists common, natural sources of psychoactive substances along two axes of a graph. The intersection of substances on each axis is coded to signify the relative risk of consuming that plant, fungi, and/or animal combination.
Lead by Dr Liam Engel alongside the EGA team, EGA’s matrix has undergone extensive peer review in a process including chemists, clinicians, ethnobotanists and other experts in psychopharmacology, includes original botanical and zoological drawings from Izwoz, and was inspired by Tripsit’s Guide to Drug Combinations chart.

Visit EGA's new website and Download the Entheogen Combination Matrix for screen or print:
https://www.entheogenesis.org/entheogen-combination-matrix

Entheogen Combination Matrix — Entheogenesis Australis Inspired by Tripsit’s Drug Combination Chart, The Entheogen Combination Chart is an ethnobotanical and psychedelic harm reduction tool concerning DMT Acacia, fly agaric, Hawaiian baby woodrose, ayahuasca, the Sonoran desert toad, cannabis, Ephedra sinica, coca leaf, morning glory, pe**te, Mimosa t...

Last Wednesday, we rallied on the steps of Parliament for alongside many friends and allies.

You can be a virtual participant in the event, by watching the 360 video of the event.

Every year, thousands of Australians die from drug-related overdose.
Thousands more are imprisoned because of personal drug use.
We have the right to live free from stigma and free from fear.

Harm Reduction Victoria (Australia)

Rally at Victorian Parliament for International Overdose Awareness Day 2022 Every year, thousands of Australians die from drug-related overdose. Thousands more are imprisoned because of personal drug use.We have the right to live fre...

Have friends or family in NSW or live there yourself?

Check out this event from NUAA NSW and DanceWize NSW!

The NSW election is coming up in March 2023 ⏳ — when will the NSW Government respond to their own Ice Inquiry's recommendations? 🤔 It has been 947 days without a response. 🔕🙃

✊🏽 Find out what else is on at NUAA's Peers and Consumers Forum and don't miss out on getting a ticket 👉 nuaa.org.au/forum

Some more photos from

Harm Reduction Victoria (Australia)

Today's rally on the steps of parliament was fantastic!

Thank you to all involved and all who made it along.

Harm Reduction Victoria (Australia)

HRVic wants to send a HUGE thank you to .a.they - Beaudi- for their awesome performance and moving and poignant personal experience of losing their father to overdose. Thank you for shining your light on our gathering today! ❤️🙏🏽✊🏽✌🏻

Join the team at Harm Reduction Victoria (Australia)

Home/Melbourne/Harm Reduction Victoria/Careers Want to join the team at HRVic? Find out how here.

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Reason #17: to DEMAND that POSSESSING DRUGS for PERSONAL USE, NOT be punished.

Each day in August HRVic will give you 30 REASONS to RALLY with us on Intl. Overdose Awareness Day -AUGUST 31st at 11am

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we'll be joining the rest of the Harm Reduction Victoria (Australia) team on the steps of parliament.

You can join us too, and call for a more humane approach to drug policy and an end to overdose.
International Overdose Awareness Day RALLY to

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Reason #22: CELEBRATE that people are MORE than our drug use! Stop Moralising Drugs!


Each day in August HRVic will give you 30 REASONS to RALLY with us on IOAD 2022-31/08 at 11am.

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Reason #23: DEMAND FULL HARM REDUCTION services in ALL prisons-including Immigration detention.


Each day in August HRVic will give you 30 REASONS to RALLY with us on IOAD 2022-31/08 at 11am.

International Overdose Awareness Day is coming up soon.

Overdose deaths are preventable with humane drug policy.

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Reason #10: to DEMAND that Australia's states PREPARE for FENTANYL'S inevitable ARRIVAL with a SAFE SUPPLY that is LEGAL.

Each day in August HRVic will give you 30 REASONS to RALLY with us on Intl. Overdose Awareness Day at 11am on Parliament steps Melbourne

Our former coordinator is now the Project Team Leader for peer workers at CAN-TEST, Canberra's fixed-site pill testing centre.

Pill Testing Australia

Queensland Greens MP Michael Berkman stressed the urgency of pill testing at music festivals as we approach “the first unbridled festival season” in a few years, noting that “it’s really important that there’s some fast movement on this”.

Pill Testing Australia are now operating the first fixed-site pill testing centre in the ACT, which is fantastic news for Canberrans and the progress of harm reduction overall.

But as we approach the first proper festival season in several years, the need for pill testing is likely (and unfortunately) to again be demonstrated, due to the many flow-on problems of the current inadequate approach to drug use.

Pill Testing Urgency Stressed Ahead Of ‘Unbridled’ Festival Season “Festivalgoers are going to be more excited about this summer than they have been for any we can remember, so it’s time to get moving.”

Huge news for the ACT and Pill Testing as a harm reduction service.

Well done to the team at Pill Testing Australia for getting this up, and we look forward to seeing the results.
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“A Watershed Moment for Drug Policy”: Dr David Caldicott on the ACT Fixed Pill Testing Site The ACT has confirmed a fixed site pill testing trial will take place in the nation’s capital for at least six months, which is the result of close to three decades of campaigning.

Our festivals are more than just a party. They are coming together of community, and many of them invest back into the local area where the event is held, and into the creative talent that drive these events.

❤🍓 Well done Strawberry Fields "More than $100,000 has been reinvested into the community from funds raised by ticket sales and events put on by Strawberry Fields."

Festival gives back to community The success of the Strawberry Fields Festival in April continues to pay dividends for the district community.

This Sunday is Support. Don't Punish. Global Day of Action.
Open Society Foundations are hosting a panel in recognition of the day.

Panelists from the U.S., Brazil, and the Philippines will discuss the consequences of drug policy enforcement, work to dismantle the drug war within their own communities, and how reparations are critical to creating a more just post-prohibitionist future.

Repairing the Harms of the Drug War Recognizing June 26—the Support Don’t Punish Global Day of Action—panelists from the U.S., Brazil, and the Philippines explore the consequences of failed drug policy and how reparations are crucial to creating a post-prohibitionist future.

❗ DRUG ALERT- KETAMINE MIS-SOLD ❗
Powder with a yellow colour, sold as ketamine.
This powder may contain the strong, novel opioid protonitazene.

🔬 NOVEL OP**TE DETECTED:
Protonitazene
💊 People expecting the effects of ketamine may not know how to recognise an op**te overdose.
Someone may appear to be entering a 'K-Hole' (dissociative state, associated with higher ketamine doses). Signs of an opioid overdose to look out for:
🔴 Tiny pupils
🔴 Slow breathing
🔴 Reduced consciousness (hard to rouse)

REDUCING RISKS:
✅ Get Naloxone and learn to reverse opioid overdose
✅ Be wary of adulterated substances
✅ When using any drug, always make sure you are in a safe environment with people you trust
✅ Start low, go slow
✅ If you experience adverse effects, seek help immediately
🚑🚑 CALL 000 🚑🚑

ℹ MORE: https://www.health.vic.gov.au/drug-alerts/yellow-powder-containing-protonitazene-may-be-sold-as-ketamine

Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Nicole Lee says. "Australia’s official national drug policy is aimed at reducing harms from legal and illegal drugs. But it’s hard to reduce harms from illegal drugs while possession and use is a criminal offence."

Canada’s drug experiment could work here. This is why The ‘war on drugs’ has not reduced use, harm or the amount of drugs circulating in the community. It’s time to try a different approach.

The NSW Attorney-General says he supports trialling a "pre-court drug diversion" program that gives police the discretion to issue $400 fines to illicit drug users.

❓ Is this a step in the right direction?

Drug possession could be punished with a fine in NSW, under Attorney-General's plan Attorney-General Mark Speakman proposes a $400 fine for people caught with drugs for personal use as state government responds to "ice" inquiry.