Fixed Site service Info
Victoria’s free drug checking service is now open at 95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
Hours are:
Thursdays 10am - 4pm
Fridays 1pm - 7pm
Saturdays 1pm - 7pm
Victoria's new fixed site for drug checking (aka. pill testing) has opened at 95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. The service will be able to provide health and safety information about drug use by peer harm reduction and health workers.
Following the successful launch of a mobile drug checking service at five music festivals from December 2024 to April 2025. This looks to continue for the 2026-27 festival season.
The Victorian Pill Testing Service is a free and confidential service that analyses your drugs and tells you what’s in them.
We provide accurate information and non-judgmental health and harm reduction advice to help you make safer decisions about drug use.
Funded by:
How it works
Everyone is welcome to use this service.
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When you arrive, you’ll provide a small sample of your substance for testing.
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While waiting for results you can chat with peers or health workers about harm reduction, have a cuppa or just hang out and watch the chemists at work.
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When the chemist has completed the tests, you’ll get your results in a private consultation room where a peer harm reduction worker will explain what was found and if needed, provide health and safety advice.
Important to remember
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No identifying information is collected during ANY of the process.
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You can’t be arrested or charged for using the service.
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However, protections ONLY apply WITHIN the service area, so please ONLY BRING A VERY SMALL sample (less than a traffickable amount). If you are unsure what that is, see below.
We can test most substances in pill/tablet form, powders, capsules, crystals and liquids.
We can’t test plant material, highly diluted substances, or edibles.
The Law
The trafficable quantities are:
• amphetamine: 3 grams
• cannabis: 250 grams or 10 plants
• cocaine: 3 grams
• GHB: 50 grams
• heroin: 3 grams
• ketamine: 3 grams
• MDMA (ecstasy): 3 grams
• methylamphetamine (ice) : 3 grams
These quantities include the drug plus any ‘cutters’.
These trafficable quantities can change if the law changes.
If you have less than a trafficable quantity of a drug, the police could still charge you with possession, or with trafficking if it looks like you were selling it. ie. in separate baggies etc.
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* 'Drugs ,the Law and Safer Substance Use' resource by
Victoria Legal Aid
Contact Us
Address
95 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy
Contact
Opening Hours
Thurs. 10am-4pm
Fri. 1pm-7pm Sat. 1pm-7pm
Sunday to Wednesday CLOSED
