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Drugs at Festivals Risk Lives | Cork News

Two major festivals are heating up this weekend, but health officials are sounding the alarm: with 120,000 expected attendees, drug use is dangerously on the rise. MDMA is getting stronger, ketamine variants are popping up, and those “pink powders” sold as cocaine? They’re often lethal mixes. Experts warn against polydrug use and mixing substances with alcohol — always tell someone what you’ve taken, never go alone, and be honest with medics. At Electric Picnic, HSE’s setting up anonymous drug-testing bins while police target dealers; Emerge up North has no legal framework for testing, and…

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