EDM Leaders Meet To Discuss Outbreak Of Deaths & Overdoses
The last 12 months in EDM have not been pretty. From the period of May 2015 - May 2016, there have been 17 reported deaths from drugs at festivals and over 100 ...
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Australia To Implement Pill-Testing At Music Festivals, Could Face Manslaughter Charges
In the wake of last year's toll on the Australian festival-going community, with seven deaths experienced from overdosing in New South Wales alone, calls for dr...
Man Arrested For Selling ‘Superman’ Ecstasy Pills That Killed Several People
Damian Malolepszy of Shropshire, England, 29, has been sentenced to six years of jail time following the death of multiple people from supposedly laced 'Superma...
Australian Police Still Won’t Introduce Pill-Testing
Is cracking down on the drug problem in Australia helping or hurting? That's the question New South Wales' Police Minister Tony Grant is asking his government. ...
Health Professionals Weigh In On MDMA After Stereosonic Sees Two Deaths In A Week
In response to the two deaths linked to Australia's Stereosonic music festival series last week, Alex Wodak, physician and director of the Alcohol and Drug Ser...
Rainbow Serpent Festival In Australia Wants To Test Pills
Days after the story of Sylvia Choi's death following Stereosonic Music Festival in Sydney, and the subsequent calls for modified harm reduction practices, Rain...
Insomniac Founder Pasquale Rotella Speaks About The Recent Coverage Of Dance Music In The Media
Dance music was put in the headlights recently with two unfortunate deaths at HARD Summer Music Festival. It was targeted by the LA County Board of Supervisors,...
HARD Addresses Last Weekend’s Fatalities
As the years pass, Los Angeles's HARD Summer Music Festival continues to see steady and exponential growth in nearly all aspects. From the number of ticket sal...
Pill-Testing At Music Festivals? How An Australian TV-Segment Opens The Discussion
In the last three months in Australia, there have been two adolescents who lost their lives relating drugs they consumed. Telling the story on the teenage dea...
Experts Warn Deadly Pills May Be Rebranded
Drug experts have issued a warning that the Superman-stamped 'ecstasy' pills that caused 4 recent deaths in the UK may have been rebranded and are possibly...
Three Deaths Reported In Amsterdam At ADE
To the dismay of many, it has been reported that two deaths have occurred at the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) this past week. Although both causes have not b...
Second Death Reported At Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2014
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It is with great sadness that we must be the bearer of more unfortunate news, as we have just come to learn that a...