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Drug checking group says most users won t take MDMA if it s revealed to be eutylone
11 Jan, 2021 07:53 PM
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A drug harm reduction service says most people would refuse to take drugs they had purchased if they weren t what they thought they were.
The group Know Your Stuff said at festivals on New Year s Eve 75 per cent of attendees that brought their drugs to be checked said that they would not take them if they turned out to be eutylone in place of MDMA.
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Fifteen per cent said they would maybe take it, and 10 per cent said they would still take their substances despite finding out it was eutylone and not MDMA.
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 6:49 am
New figures
released by KnowYourStuffNZ show that drug checking this
summer resulted in the vast majority of people who attended
drug checking choosing not to take the harmful cathinone
eutylone, where it turned out they had unwittingly purchased
it.
NZ Drug Foundation Executive Director Sarah Helm
said: “Some 75% said they wouldn’t take the substance,
and a further 15% said they weren’t sure, as a result of
attending drug checking and finding out the substance they
had was the more harmful substance eutylone. The percentage
of people who have decided they wouldn’t take the
substance is significantly greater than in previous years.