HSE warns Electric Picnic festivalgoers over high-strength drugs in circulation

The HSE Safer Nightlife Harm Reduction Programme tent will provide drug harm reduction services at Electric Picnic this weekend. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The HSE has urged Electric Picnic attendees to engage with its drug harm reduction teams, as it remains on alert for high-strength drugs in circulation at this year’s festival.

About 80,000 people are expected to descend on Stradbally in Co Laois this weekend for the annual Electric Picnic festival, with the health service’s Safer Nightlife Harm Reduction Programme set to be onsite for the fourth time this year.