Attenders able to check what substances are in their illicit pills and powders at two-day Yours and Owls music festival
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Police will keep a highly visible presence including sniffer dogs around the site of a long-awaited pill testing pilot but say safety is the top priority.
The two-day Yours and Owls music festival in Wollongong – headlined by US rapper Denzel Curry and UK band The Kooks – will host a drug checking site over the weekend, offering the harm reduction measure to thousands of festival-goers in NSW for the first time.
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