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#Drugchecking: #Thüringen hat die Lösung! Drugchecking ermöglicht die Untersuchung von Drogen auf ihre Wirkstoffe - und verhindert so Drogennotfälle durch ungewollte Überdosierungen. Durch einen Clou konnte jetzt ein Pilotprojekt in Thüringen starten.
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Seit Jahren setzen sich Aktivist*innen dafür ein, auch in Deutschland die Risiken beim Substanzgebrauch in der Party-, Club- und Rave-Szene durch #Drugchecking zu minimieren, bisher erfolglos. Durch einen Clou konnte jetzt ein Pilotprojekt in Thüringen starten.
Wir haben mit den Leuten hinter dem #Drugchecking-Pilotprojekt #SubCheck des .@drogerieprojekt:s aus #Thüringen über die #ThüringerLösung gesprochen. magazin.hiv/2021/08/13/dru…
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let’s work through this statement methodically, and see if we can find any persistent errors of science or interpretation, despite the EXTENSIVE detail available in the Inquiry itself.
[spoiler- we can, and there’s a few, so stay with me...]
let’s work through this statement methodically, and see if we can find any persistent errors of science or interpretation, despite the EXTENSIVE detail available in the Inquiry itself.
[spoiler- we can, and there’s a few, so stay with me...]
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We start with ‘The Message’- not so much a scientific fact as such, but an assumption.
Here the assumption is not even stated, but just implied, to suggest that ‘The Message’ that is provided by #pilltesting is presumably ‘a bad thing’.
By keeping it vague, we can avoid the...
We start with ‘The Message’- not so much a scientific fact as such, but an assumption.
Here the assumption is not even stated, but just implied, to suggest that ‘The Message’ that is provided by #pilltesting is presumably ‘a bad thing’.
By keeping it vague, we can avoid the...
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need to be corrected- because corrected one would be. The Message of #pilltesting is actually that we value the lives of young Australians above all things, & esp. above an ideology that is not only failing them, but causing them harm. If that is off-piste, guilty as charged.
need to be corrected- because corrected one would be. The Message of #pilltesting is actually that we value the lives of young Australians above all things, & esp. above an ideology that is not only failing them, but causing them harm. If that is off-piste, guilty as charged.
Just leaving a press conference with Victorian state cross benchers calling for pill testing. Strong support from five parties/independents. So logical it seems inevitable. Except...
The Vic Labor government is strangely conservative on this issue. They need to be convinced it's a bit like testing cooling towers to prevent Legionnaires, or chicken shops to prevent Salmonella.
Preaching abstinence from drug use is about as effective as it is in sex education. Harm reduction works and shows we care about the community. It's time for #pilltesting.
