CanTEST Health & Drug Checking Service
Australia's first fixed-site health and pill testing service. Free, confidential, anonymous, and legal chemical testing with harm reduction consultations.
🕒 Operating Days & Hours
🔬 How Testing Works (4 Steps)
- Anonymous Entry: No ID, no Medicare card, no name required.
- Tiny Sample Scraping: Only 5–10mg (smaller than a match head) is tested.
- Spectrometry Analysis: FTIR spectrometry and test strips detect active drugs and toxic cuts.
- Health Consultation: Discuss potency, safer dosing, or use the free disposal bin.
🚨 Latest ACT Drug Alerts & Warnings
Verified detections by CanTEST and ACT Health
⚖️ ACT Drug Decriminalisation Laws
Since 28 October 2023, personal possession of small quantities of illicit substances is treated as a health matter rather than a criminal conviction in the ACT.
Maximum Small Quantities for Civil Notice:
What happens if intercepted: Police may issue a Simple Illicit Drug Offence Notice (SIDON) - a $100 fine OR referral to an assessment & education session with Canberra Health Services (CADAS). No criminal record is created.
Important: Dealing, commercial supply, and driving under the influence (RDT) remain serious criminal offences.
Naloxone Training & Overdose Response
Naloxone temporarily reverses life-threatening opioid overdoses (including heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, and nitazenes). It is completely non-addictive and harmless if given when no opioids are present.
🔍 Recognizing Overdose vs Overamping vs G-Sleep
- Pinpoint / constricted pupils
- Breathing stopped or slow (<8 bpm)
- Gurgling or snoring ('death rattle')
- Blue/grey lips or fingertips
- Limp and unarousable body
- Racing heart (>140 bpm) & chest pain
- Extreme sweating / hot burning skin
- Severe agitation, panic, paranoia
- Rigid muscles & jaw clenching
- Call 000 if chest pain or seizing
- Sudden deep coma / unconscious
- Irregular or gasping breathing
- Twitching or jerking limbs
- High risk of choking on vomit
- Never leave on back; call 000!
🚨 Interactive Naloxone Response Simulator
Step-by-step clinical protocol for life-saving intervention
1. Check Response & Stimulate
Standard Resuscitation Protocol📍 Free Take-Home Naloxone Outlets in Canberra
Available free with no prescription, no cost, and no Medicare card required.
Drugs 101: Effects, Timelines & Safer Use
Comprehensive clinical and harm reduction guides based on the Drug Wheel. Filter by category, explore pharmacokinetics, onset, peak, duration, and key safety measures.
Substance Interaction & Combination Matrix
Mixing substances is the single leading cause of adverse events, acute hospitalisations, and accidental deaths. Select two substances to evaluate clinical combination risks.
🔄 Select Pair to Evaluate
📖 Risk Classification Scale
Night Out Safety, Hydration & CPR Tools
Practical in-the-moment harm reduction utilities: monitor water intake safely (preventing both dehydration and hyponatremia), track dose timing, and access an emergency CPR beat metronome.
💧 Hydration Monitor
Guideline: 250ml/hour (resting) or 500ml/hour (dancing). Avoid drinking excessive plain water on MDMA!
⏱️ Dose Interval Timer
Track time elapsed to prevent compulsive or premature redosing before full onset.
🫀 Australian Resuscitation CPR Metronome (100–120 BPM)
When performing chest compressions on an unresponsive person who is not breathing, compress hard and fast in the center of the chest at 100 to 120 compressions per minute (the rhythm of "Stayin' Alive").