Dr. Caldicott believes in harm reduction measures at festivals, instead of shutting them ย downย altogether.
In light of recent events at Stereosonic, where a 25-year-old festival goer lost her life along with several drug arrests, Dr. David Caldicott sheds some light on the benefit of harm reduction models at music festivals. This incident gave Stereosonic the same reputation that HARD Summer received, garnering much backlash and demands for the festival to shut down.
โI think prohibition is irresponsible โ itโs puerile.ย It never worked for alcohol, doesnโt work now.ย If you find yourself at the bottom of a deep hole holding a spade and wondering how you got there, the solution is not to keep digging.โ – Dr. Caldicott
Dr. Caldicott is an emergency physician and drug expert. He believes inย that drug testing at festivals will help to dissuade young adults from taking substances and educate them about the content of the drug they wish to take.
โโDonโt use drugsโ is perfectly acceptable for primary school kids and the people who arenโt already using drugs,โ he said.
โBut for this group of people, theyโve already decided to use drugs and we need to be far more nuanced in our approach to illicit drugs than we currently are.โ – Dr. Caldicott
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(Source: Your EDM)