Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan backs pill testing trial

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The Victorian Premier announced the state would roll out pill testing this summer saying the trial was worth doing if it saves one life. Footage: AAP.

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00:00If particularly a young person is at a festival and they've already got a pill in their hand

00:04intending to consume it, and we have an opportunity to have an intervention, a health-focussed

00:10intervention, a non-judgemental, factual-based conversation with that person about what's

00:15in that drug, what substances are in that drug, we know the evidence tells us they are

00:22less likely to consume that drug. So why wouldn't we use this health-based approach, this evidence-based

00:28approach, because it has...

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