In NSW, drug driving recently became the second leading cause of deaths on the road, surpassing fatigue, drink driving and non-seatbelt use. Getting behind the wheel of a vehicle high on anything is generally a dangerous idea. But this issue is even more serious when it comes to benzos.

Benzodiazepines, aka benzos, are exploding in popularity, especially among young people in Australia. But people aren’t just sourcing their benzos from people with prescriptions, there’s a huge fake benzo markets with frequent quality control issues. It’s an underground subculture filled with unmarked cliff edges and landslides. So just how do you navigate it safely?

Kate is a proud Aboriginal woman who has a history of injecting heroin. She wants to share her unique experience of clearing hep C twice, nearly 2 decades apart. Her first treatment was in prison in the early 2000s, with Interferon. Soon after she got out of prison, she got hep C again and didn’t get treated until 2019. Getting treated a second time has been life changing for her and she now supports peers with hep C and drug use.

How to deal with dodgy pills of the benzo kind