Newsbeat Documentaries
Clubs, Drugs and Saving Lives
2016 • E8 Nov 24, 2016 30m
As iconic club Fabric gets its licence back, with stricter drug controls, Newsbeat's Jim Connolly investigates whether the Swiss approach to drugs could work here.
With a very different attitude to things like ecstasy, open testing has been happening there for over a decade and officials say it's meant fewer deaths than in the UK.
Jim follows one clubber's ecstasy pill as it is tested in Bern and asks clubbers, scientists and venue owners if there is anything the UK can learn before presenting his findings to British police.
With a very different attitude to things like ecstasy, open testing has been happening there for over a decade and officials say it's meant fewer deaths than in the UK.
Jim follows one clubber's ecstasy pill as it is tested in Bern and asks clubbers, scientists and venue owners if there is anything the UK can learn before presenting his findings to British police.