Drug testing pilot rolled out to Irish festivals

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Drug testing pilot rolled out to Irish festivals
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A pilot scheme launched at last year's Electric Picnic music festival is being rolled out across Ireland.

Electric Picnic is an arts and music festival at Stradbally Hall Estate, County Laois.

The festival returned last September with thousands gathering to watch a line-up that included Tame Impala, Arctic Monkeys and Snow Patrol.including high potency drugs, 12 new psychoactive substances and four drugs which had never been identified in Ireland. The HSE added it was working with An Garda Síochána to guarantee their medical tents are health-led, safe spaces for people to talk about their use and consider surrendering drugs.Drugs testing is now widely practiced across numerous festivals in the United Kingdom.

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