Boomtown Fair Introduces New Drug-Safety Measures
| 4th July 2017
Making it’s debut appearance at Kendall Calling and The Secret Garden Party last year, The Loop have been invited to many more festivals for 2017 including Boomtown Fair. The Loop will be substance testing at this year’s festival alongside the presence of trained drug counselors.
The sold out 60,000 capacity festival is taking extensive action to increase drug awareness, education, and promote harm reduction through a variety of methods. Whilst the Loop will be testing, drug counsellors will be at each of the campsite hubs in order to help and educate the young festival- goers.
As part of the pre-event awareness and education Boomtown have a dedicated page on their website highlighting a selection of current dangerous drug trends at festivals and events in the UK. The festival aims to offer non-judgemental facts and links in order to support and help people before, during and after the festival.
Boomtown organisers have discussed why they want to introduce the new drug safety measures, commenting:
“After the truly heartbreaking experience of too many young people dying across the country at events, night clubs and town centres, through drug related incidents, we want to have an open and honest discussion to make sure we are doing everything in our power to educate, protect and prevent similar incidents occurring at the festival, and beyond, in the future. There appears to be lack of education when it comes to drug use that, hopefully, with the help of The Loop and the other drug awareness measures we are implementing this year, we can at least make a start on changing the conversation to help better prepare people for the real dangers that drug experimentation poses.”
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