An Insight into Drug Testing Facilities in the Netherlands

In the run-up to Lowlands last year, a Dutch festival with a lineup packed full of the likes of Tame Impala, New Order and Live Electronic Godfather Paul Kalkbrenner, Lara Smit visits the Jellinek drug-testing facility in Utrecht with a key question:  Does Government Funded Drug-Testing in the Netherlands Prevent Deaths?

 

“If my daughter had been able to get her drugs tested, she might have still been alive today.”

 

Ever since ecstasy and MDMA gained popularity in the 1980’s, the Dutch have been able to get their drugs tested at government funded testing-facilities. But does the testing of illicit drugs prevent drug-related deaths?

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