Fixed Site service Info

Victoria’s free pill testing service is now open at 95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

Hours are:

Thursdays 12pm - 4pm

Fridays 3pm - 7pm

Saturdays 1pm - 7pm

Victoria's new fixed site for drug checking (aka. pill testing) has opened at 95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. The Victorian Government is trialling this new health service to reduce possible drug-related harm. The service will be able to provide health and safety information about drug use by peer harm reduction workers.

It is expected to open by August 2025, and the trial will operate for up to 12 months.

This follows the successful launch of a mobile drug checking service at five music festivals from December 2024 to April 2025.

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.

When you arrive, you’ll provide a small sample of your substance for testing.
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.
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

No identifying information is collected during ANY of the process.
You can’t be arrested or charged for using the service.
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

Drugs & The Law resource

Possession

The police can charge you with possession (outside the pill testing service) if you have a drug:

• on your body

• in your house

• in a car that you own or are driving.

Possession of prescription drugs like methadone, steroids or benzodiazepines is okay if you have a prescription. The prescription must be up-to-date and made out to you.

It is legal in Victoria to possess new or used syringes. Try not to carry drugs on you when you are carrying syringes.

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* 'Drugs ,the Law and Safer Substance Use' resource by

Victoria Legal Aid

Drugs & The Law resource