The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) is a national drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets, and form part of Drug Trends.

Personal testing kits (i.e. colorimetric reagent tests) comprise the only local option for people in Canberra, ACT to obtain objective information about the contents of their illicit drugs. The aim of this bulletin is to summarise engagement in self-deployed harm reduction strategies amongst a sample of people in Canberra, ACT, who regularly use ecstasy and related drugs, with focus on the experience of drug checking.